"It gets so much better!" They say, but does it?

Admittedly, this book is an improvement on the first if only because the plot is a bit more interesting than the first books, but I wouldn't consider it an enormous improvement. I'm still not a huge fan of Celaena nor Choal and Dorian. I think there were a lot of big dramatic moments that were supposed to make me feel something that just... didn't?

Also, the riddle and puzzles that Celaena was trying to solve were... not hard. Which kind of takes a reader out of it.

Again - the third book is supposed to be amazing, so I'll keep on reading, but the minor improvements in this book have not convinced me that there will be some spike in quality.