Ich fand den 2. Band sehr viel besser: sowohl das world building als auch die Entwicklung der Geschichte✨ Es gab ein paar plottwists die ich nicht kommen sehen habe which I liked🥰 Es wurden ausserdem ein paar neue Charaktere eingeführt, die mir sehr sympathisch waren oder die ich interessant fand. Aber und hier kommt der Grund warum ich den Band trotzdem nur 3 Sterne 🌟 gegeben habe: die Beziehung zwischen adara und Einar hat mich nicht wirklich besonders überzeugt. Auch der Fakt dass ich emotional nicht wirklich investiert war, hat mich enttäuscht wobei ich auch schon beim 1. Band nicht really investiert war! Ich werde auf jeden Fall den 3. Band lesen aber bin mir recht sicher, dass es bei einer 2,5-3⭐️-Reihe bleiben wird.

Kept going after part one but my opinion on this didn't really change. I really like the story and the world it's set in, but I feel like there's so much more potential. The characters at times feel a little flat and obstacles they encounter are build up but resolved in what feels like the blink of an eye. The language starts to feel repetitive at some point with the same phrases being repeated quite often. Also there seem to be some mistakes, like characters suddenly being named slightly different and timeliness sometimes just don't make sense. Still sticking around for part three though!

Weeeeelll I love Einar very much and I love those great side characters but I cannot decide if I like the FMC. Sometimes she is fierce and sassy and I’m all here for that but sometimes she is just so damn dumb and naive that want to throttle her….😩 We travel to new places and get more POVs and therefore see more of the world - it is definitely not a boring 2. book - so I appreciate that. But there is still this problem that I can foresee problems and plot twist so easy AND even though I like that it’s not ending in a bad cliffhanger - I don’t like that all the conflicts are solved so fast. In short: The stakes promise to build up high- just to crumble very fast …..Yes, we have the overall “light against shadow conflict” which drives the plot but I’m just not surprised or caught off guard with anything. I just think that this world and therefore the plot has got so much more potential. I will read book 3 though. So 3,5 stars it is.