Well that took a turn…. I liked Diem in the first book and absolutely hated her in this one. She was so incredibly mean to Luther, to the point of cruel when he was the most upstanding and best character in the book IMO. I wanted to slap her so often, the book just made me angry (obviously) and I DNF’d it at 62% after reading the other reviewers that the rest of the book is the same. 

The plot itself was good and I wanted to know what was going to happen, how everything was going to pan out, the dialogue was good (aside from the unfounded angst), but Diem made such a gross deviation from the first book I couldn’t do it. The selfless recklessness and passion she had in the first book was for others and for justice, but with empathy. This one it was reckless to the point of stupidity and cruelty, full of the prejudice that she hated in others, and with constantly taking any suggestion someone made about anyone else’s character or motives to her as gospel without evaluating whether it lined up with someone’s character. I just don’t get it.