I didn’t like this book as much as the first one, but I still thought it was great. I think that Dani and Carmen are equally compelling point of view characters, and I’m glad that this book let us spend so much time with Carmen.

I think a lot of the negative reviews I’ve seen of this book were from people who wanted more of a romance focus, and that’s a little odd to me because the first one was very balanced between revolution and romance and I thought that this one was too.

My only real issue with this book is the plot. Too many things happen too quickly, and they’re often not connected enough to what happened in the first book. I think this is because the author was trying to wrap up the story in two books. 

The overly fast-paced plot along with the addition of two new major characters who couldn’t have appeared in the first book kind of makes me wish that this had been a trilogy rather than a duology. That might just be personal taste, though. I never love it when major players are introduced in the final installment.

But overall, I still loved the characters and the world and I really loved what this book did with Alex, and I would highly recommend this duology to anyone who, like me, is a fan of sapphic forbidden romance and also revolution.