Book 2 in this series stands rather firmly with book 1 in my rating system. It didn't suffer from book 2 syndrome, and did have a few moments that genuinely caught me by surprise. One of those surprises included something I dread: the love triangle. I almost put the book down and stopped reading, but decided I owed it to my friend to keep going, and I'm glad I did.

This novel peeled back the layers on these characters in ways I was not expecting. There were betrayals and confessions I did not see coming. Getting to secretly watching, as the omnipresent reader, these characters go about their secret lives was so entertaining!

I did find myself expecting the other shoe to drop in this novel and it never really did. I'd discover shortly that all the shoes would be dropping over and over in the finale, like a stampede on my heart.