I'm happy to report I enjoyed this sequel a great deal more than the first book. Auren uncaged started to grow as a person and I'm thrilled about that. The best part though was how much the world in general opened up. The new characters we meet are a vast improvement to Midas and basically his entire court. I'm really excited to see what the next book brings.

It took awhile for me to get into this one. The first half is basically bad sex and Stockholm syndrome musings but some time in the last half a plot kicked in and I'm intrigued enough to see where this going with the next book. Auren definitely has some growing to do, I hope there's more of that in book 2. I'm also curious to get a bigger glimpse of this world. Hopefully with less 'saddles' being used goings-on.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed with this one. I really loved the first book and this sequel was one of my most anticipated releases. I originally started it pretty quickly after release and got about 80 pages in and ended up walking away from it for awhile. It wasn't capturing my full attention and I thought maybe it was just a mood reader thing and decided to come back another time when I was feeling it more. I finally made my way back and unfortunately that feeling never quite left me. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. The plot is interesting and was my main draw to the first book. Maybe because this one seemed more focused on sexual tension, I'd say that was definitely first and foremost. But I'm confident that wasn't all it was either as normally this wouldn’t be such a drag. Ultimately this ended up being just a 'meh' to me. I never really got super into it and that was a bummer to me after how awesome book one was. I'll likely still read the next one with hopes that it will reinvest me in the story.

This was imaginative and chilling in a very OTHER kind of way. Everything was very well done and it wonderfully sets you on edge and makes for a quick haunting little read.