This had a very slow start for me, but that was completely my own fault. I read the first book a couple of years ago, so I had forgotten most of the side characters and details of the plot, leaving me extremely confused trying to catch up with this sequel. 
This normally wouldn’t have been much of an issue for me, but this book had about a trillion side characters and heavily relied on the previous book in terms of the story, so I was fully scrambling trying to follow along, which wasn’t much fun. However, like I said, that was completely my own fault, so I won’t hold it against the book itself.

I would say it was around the halfway point that I really started to feel myself get immersed into the story again and like I truly had a stake in what happened to the characters. I finally managed to feel that connection again, and once that happened I was reminded at how much I enjoy these characters and the plot! 

All in all, I think this had a cool story with lots of action, but I would have preferred a little more character building, especially between the two mains. Kazi and Jase were separated during almost the whole book, which means we only got a limited amount of interactions between them, which I thought was kind of disappointing. I also expected more drama to happen between the Ballenger family, but we really didn’t get many interactions with them either. 

In general, I feel like this book was a little too plot-focused and would have benefited greatly from more care and detail put into the characters and their relationships to each other. Especially since I genuinely do like the dynamics between everyone a lot!