4.07 AVERAGE

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book d r a g s on 
dark emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
adventurous challenging emotional funny tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Maybe the first part is a little bit slow (a little much) but after that, wowww 
challenging dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Holy crap did it take me a long time to finish this book. 
I really loved the first one but the second one was difficult to get through, I almost DNFed it. But I remembered how much I’d loved Darien and Loren in the first one and felt invested in what would happen with them, so I kept on reading.
This sequel could be at least 300 pages shorter in my opinion. The first 100 pages or so were good too; but then I got lost. Too many characters; plot lines,… most of the time I was just trying to figure out who was who, what they were doing here etc. Too many scenes felt repetitive, which didn’t help with the feeling of the book being too long. 
I’m on the fence about continuing the series now.
dark emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

unfortunately not as good as the first one
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Slower than the first book but still interesting. Will continue reading the series