I appreciated what this book did in terms of worldbuilding and filling in the universe beyond what our characters knew. 
And also I could have used so much less teenaged angst. It’s not that I don’t get or even am guilty of it a time or two myself, I just find reading it frustrating. 
On the bright side, there does seem to be

possibilities of an actual love triangle with polyamory rather than the boring kind…but I wish she’d signaled that more clearly at the beginning. I would have whined about it less.

It was fine. But it was less of what I loved than the first one. (Also I could have used some more nomenclature reminders because I still don’t remember how the legendborn work .)