About the same level as the first book - it's ok, essentially. The Suicide Forest was genuinely creepy, if its inhabitants are ripped off wholesale from Doctor Who's weeping angels.

Unfortunately, the best thing about the previous book (Anna) was almost entirely absent. Her presence here is 95% victim. She had such creepy power when dressed in blood; it was a shame to see that go.

The main character, Cas, is still an obnoxious brat so no change there... I wanted to slap him when he sneered to his (continually unappreciated) mother about her "feminine intuition" when she (quite unreasonably, given his personality) was trying to persuade her son not to put himself in mortal danger. Tried to tell her "Let him go, you'll be happier..." I don't think she heard me.

But we did get a new character, Jestine, who was more enjoyable than the rest of them, so that was something.