I put off reading this, because the first book was so good, and I was worried this wouldn't live up to my expectations. And the sequel curse strikes me again because I spent most of this book feeling depressed, frustrated and bored. It felt like the author wanted to create more conflict, and having Jamie and Andrew fight for the majority of the book just annoyed me.

There wasn't really much happening in this book. While it introduced new characters from the community they found themselves in that I did like, by the end many had died, or left. I felt Cora took a background role for most of this story, and there was too much focus on the aftermath of what happened at Fort Caroline.

A lot of this story is walking around, finding new people, ascertaining if they're good or not, and then walking some more. There's just so much walking. If this felt more character driven I might have been fine with this, but I felt we got little more than surface level for every character, even including Andrew and Jamie. The ending was worth the slog, but I'm disappointed.