Seems like I always enjoy the most unpopular book in a series the most :').

This instalment felt more high stakes and wasn't suffering from the plot armour the first book had. I love how the author took the time to make the world much more fleshed out and how Elias and Laia really became their own characters instead of being the cookie cutter YA characters from the first book. It could have gone without the love triangle, but I like how the thrope was used as a plot point for once instead of just being there to create drama. The book had some consequences I wasn't the biggest fan of, but it also made me feel like the author knew what she was doing and these things were happening for a reason. I really hate when an author kills people off or makes characters suffer without a reason, but because I felt like there was reasoning behind these consequences I didn't mind them? She will have to prove this in the next book though, so I hope my fate wasn't undeserved.