I liked the first volume a bit better, but I'm not sure I'll continue the series. The art is so lacking in detail and so dark that I'm not a big fan of it, and I'm really not enjoying the way this is two volumes in a row where we're being given bread crumbs without any explanation for any of it. If anything, the world and "curse" are so much more confusing now than they were in the first volume! I'm sad to say I don't think this is for me.