Really enjoying this series so far. This one is a bit more melodramatic, but the craft is also improved and I really liked that the romance did not dominate the story, as I feared it might based on the ending of the first book.

There’s more reveals, just as interesting as the first book, which threw out some doozies! I also am just so into the gene hacking and virus aspects of the book. Very biopunk, but turned up to 11 on the technological scale. Yet still plausible, thematic, and rooted in deep seeded and compelling questions.

I wish the covers were a bit different because that was my initial balking point on these books. Well reviewed and liked, but it’s not a book you’d want to pick up based on the cover and the market is fairly saturated. This series deserves to be far more popular than it is.