I received this eBook from NetGalley for review.
 

 This book felt more slow-paced than book 1. I don't know if it's my headspace, or if something about the narrative in this book was slower. I found myself disconnecting from things while reading a lot of the time. I kept wanting things to get to the point, and I sometimes didn't care what was going to happen to the characters. Juva made a lot of really dumb decisions in this book, and it reminded me that she made a lot of really dumb decisions in the first book as well. 

I am really invested in the setting, even if I can't always picture it. That is the downside to this ebook, it doesn't have a map. That makes it hard to visualize where things are, and with a lot of the book being set in one city, where everyone is always running around I could've really used a map. 

I still don't understand what the dynamic between Juva and Grif. I didn't understand it in the first book, and I still don't really understand who they are supposed to be to each other. 

 

The political schemes do have a large focus in this book, which I do appreciate, it just bothers me that everyone is kind of dumb. Juva keeps expecting people to do the right thing or at the very least have some self preservation, and it keeps backfiring. 

As frustrating as a lot of these characters were through this book, I'm still invested in what's to come in the next book.