Another one bites the dust, unfortunately. So this is book 2 of a duet and normally I can plow through the sequel and usually why I wait to pick up book 1 because of the cliffhanger. Well, this duet started strong. I mean we had more going on than just the pack because we had a lot of the hockey side of things, we had the drama going on with Verity's family/work, and then the tension with AJ refusing to meet her. We kind of end on a cliffhanger but overall it's pretty tame. Especially for a book that's over 600 pages! Well this second book is a little shorter, it's still over 500 pages. But instead of the drama, and suspense coming in we actually step back from literally everything and it's nothing but steam! Like I need more especially if the book is this big. We could've focused on the secret with Griff's designation, hockey, Verity's research or family, or heck have the tension with AJ still going on. But it's literally nothing but steam and barely plot and I just could not. I eventually just tapped out. There wasn't really anything that I wanted to continue for. Maybe if it was a little shorter and had more attention to literally anything else.