The novelty of getting to know a new world was already used up by the end of the first book.
My attachment to the MCs of the first book didn't carry over much as this has different povs.
The only thing that might have kept me interested was the political intrigue.
There was quite a bit of hinting at larger and more complex political scheming without a clear cut good and bad but; first, it became obvious that the book expends almost all focus on the pnr and second, it very much seems like this complex political landscape was largely a false promise.
We have very clear good vs evil vibes coming off the plot so far and I am just not interested.

The same flaws that I already pointed out in my review to book one apply still. No improvement on that. If anything, it got slightly worse afaict.

There just isn't anything particularly interesting to me in this world.
I dropped it in chapter 9. Roughly 20% in I guess.

I'm loving this series!

This is the best new series (new to me) that I have read in a while. It has great characters and a complicated plot that keeps me guessing and turning pages.

I wasn't sure of Cat's loyalties in the first book but I liked how blunt she was and how she covered her kindness of giving Chloe gloves by saying her chattering teeth was annoying. I warmed up to her more in this book.

Bash wasn't even on my radar in the last book until tragedy struck. He was just a background character. I hadn't expected him to be the star of his own book yet but I'm glad he was now. He turned out to be okay.

I look forward to the next book ( )