I received an eARC of this book via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of this review.

Yet another book that suffers from second-book syndrome. Y'all most of the time I can push through this. If the start of a series is intriguing enough for me to keep reading, I'm likely to push through a bad second book to get to the end (Ice Like Fire, anyone?). Unfortunately for True North that wasn't happening. [b:True Born|26114621|True Born (True Born Trilogy, #1)|L.E. Sterling|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1443004155s/26114621.jpg|46061436] showed a lot of promise and so I was expecting a lot from its sequel. Maybe too much…

The book opens pretty much where it left off. Lucy has made a deal with Nolan Storm: his protection and help in finding her twin sister Margot for her card into the elite, first-class society world. Basically she is his ward and he parades her around like a showgirl to get into these fancy events and talk to people (that's really dumbing it down, there's more to it than that, but you get the picture). However when Storm doesn't deliver on his end of the deal, Lucy gets impatient. With the help of her new friend Alistair (y'all I may like him more than Jared and that's saying something), she boards a ship set for Russia to find her sister. Of course her True Born bodyguard Jared is not far behind.

So why did I not finish this book? Y'all, I was bored to tears. It dragged SO much. I need a fast-ish moving plot. It doesn't have to move at lightning speed or anything, it just needs to move. Unfortunately, True North doesn't. It's extremely slow plot, the kinda love triangle (not really love triangle), and the large sections of info dump was too much for me. I put this book down around the 60% mark and never picked it back up. As a result I won't be finishing this series. Sadly the only thing I'll miss is if Lucy picks Jared *shrugs*