While it is certainly as witty as the first book, this one just kind of stumbles through some of its' conclusions - mainly the De Grey mystery and her character as a whole - wrapping things up with seemingly no thoughts put into it. 

I'm sure some of the things not addressed will probably be tackled in the next book, but I think it was just unnecessary to split things down the middle. It felt underwhelming to spend two books reading about this big, dark mystery of the past, only for it to be solved and then promptly ignored because the main character had to go off on her own. Why the forced hurry? The book could have afforded to be a little longer.

Despite all this, it was still a fun, quick read. The romance wasn't awkward (and sometimes I even found myself wishing for more of it) and the new characters were well developed and interesting, though the setting was somewhat interchangeable with last book's setting. Emily is kind of a bitch a lot, but I'm glad that a FMC gets to the be the awful one for once without being apologetic about all the time - she apologizes when it's really pertinent, and that's enough.

Wendell and the Fae are the best parts of the book, though. I love how the definition of what a Fae is expanding so much; by the third book everything will be Fae. Good!