I read the first book in this series a few years ago and to be honest I didn't remember very much. I guess this is why I had a hard time getting back into the setting and the characters. Although I recently read a book by this authors which I didn't like very much, I had hopes that this one was going to be better. In the beginning I had the impression I am going to like this book a lot better but after about 30% into the story, I got more and more bored. There were a tons of characters which I couldn't really connect with and had a hard time to tell who was who and who was with who and so on. I never had the feeling that one character was in the centre of the story. Everything made a very hectic impression and the story was jumping around. I also missed a festive atmosphere. The story had a lot more potential there. Unfortunately I have two more books of this series in my tbr read pile, so I will have to at least try them.