This book definitely fell into filler territory because it dragged so much and i didn't have a clear idea of what was going on. There was so much going on but nothing actually happening that it began to drag which took me out of the story.

Speaking of: what was the story? The whole prophecy seemed to be self fulfilling because it's glaringly obvious that Rielle is a selfish, vain egomaniac so why she had to hide this or more importantly, why they couldn't see this makes no sense.
The whole thing was rather nonsensical in that the rebellion felt hollow. At any one point i couldn't tell who, what or where they were fighting.

Everything was too excessively and unnecessarily described. At one point there was a half page of what someones wedding dress looked like and i really struggled to care. I struggled with any emotional connection to most of it tbh, especially the love connections. Especially with Simon and his completely unnatural, incestuous and paedophilic feelings towards Eliana. It just isn't right and weirded me out!

The angels, while good to have an outing with angels as villains, fell rather short; especially Ludivine and the wraith Zahra. Their odd Stockholm Syndrome relationship with Rielle and Eliana respectively was annoying to read and i couldn't understand what use they were meant to be. They don't tell them anything, they don't fight etc. Just sitting there being a liability.

*sigh* I'll continue to complete the series but i hope the third book isn't as much of a chore. It gets a pass because book 2s usually do this but i'm continuing to find out the whole Simon element cause that ending was ridiculous and unexpected.