This book was, in some ways, a reverse of the first. The first 1/2 - 2/3s grabbed me and then it faded out and had…less to do other than get to the end. It feels like Anton has parts of her heroine’s life that just are easier to write and struggles with both youth and age. 
It’s complicated to write characters whose stories are already written in very ancient texts and I love that she stuck so close to the texts and wish sometimes she’d let her characters drive.