a small step up from the first book (fortuna sworn), but still a lot of room for improvement. my main issue with the first book was that everything was rushed. in restless slumber, the author takes the time to develop the character dynamics and the world a little bit more, which this series definitely needed, i think.

at times i felt like this book was just a series of random events, and none of the events had any correlation?? to me, it seemed like the author had certain scenes in her mind, and didn't know how to connect them. and we're left with a clunky story with no flow or natural progression. i wouldn't say the entire book is like this, but it definitely got messier during the middle chunk/the bulk of the story.

i have a love/hate relationship with fortuna. she was insufferable at certain parts of this book, but her character took a very interesting shift in the last quarter. i'm so intruiged to see where she goes from here. i'm still reeling over the ending, it got very dark and graphic very quickly, and i don't know how i feel about any of it