I won a free ARC of this book in a title reveal contest. To start, I liked it a lot more than the first book! I found the characters more engaging and I really liked Logan. Rachel's character was a little too depressing- I understand that her whole life is about loss and revenge but it was a lot of heavy emotion to wade through. I also found it frustrating how little happens for a book that is 480 pages. It is a lot of camping, then death and hurrying away from attack. Repeat. I felt like that could have been cut in half and it would have had the same harrowing effect. I enjoyed it more for the last hundred pages, although I really had to keep the reveals straight! I'm interested enough to see how the trilogy concludes and definitely enjoyed this more than I expected. It felt a little too much like a "second book" though. I didn't feel like the Commander was as effective a villain either- he wasn't even in the book much. And I'm really confused about the timeline of everything! There is an older character who was alive during the "old civilization", which means the catastrophe couldn't have happened more than 50 years ago, yet NO ONE knows ANYTHING about the old civilization! How is that possible?! Was it really wiped out that extensively, throughout the entire world? And where did the Cursed Ones come from? How did they wipe out all technology? It seems like the old civilization is supposed to represent our world, but I find it all confusing.