I loved the first book but found the second book a challenge. I wanted so much to get back to the challanged lovers. Not to get back to the mean egocentric child women. However her mind is the key to all the past they know. So halfway i did start hoping she would let her burdens go. The author does write some hopeless situations and tramatised caracters geesh. But in the end there is some feeling of hope and contentment for the new life they all embark upon.