This book is notable in that it is getting a 2.75 because it is aggressively okay. The main character is bland, boring, but not annoying or horrible. The plot has some okay ideas but is invariably padded and bloated. The relationships have a glimmer of making sense while all being very "eh". And the world-building... there is certainly some sort of world being built, but it makes no real sense and is firmly just this background to make certain things feel okay while never making them quite make sense or feel gripping. 

The best praise I have for this book is it was not egregiously bad like the first one was.