Overall:
The pacing is REALLY fast but I get that it’s in correlation to Maia’s transformation, but I felt like some things happened a little too fast while some other scenes dragged on

There was a mention of a gay couple, so it was nice to see SOME semblance of queerness in here, but I would’ve liked it more if that particular couple was more apparent and we could have had the chance to see other queer couples

I liked that we got to learn a bit more about the demons, their magic and how it worked but I still feel like I’m missing something about the magic system. Especially with the Enchanters, while we did get to meet some more Enchanters, I still don’t get how they work. But we did get some more Lore and God/Goddess interaction and that was cool

My FAVORITE thing about the book (beside the romance) was Maia's strong sense of family, the love that she had for her siblings and her parents (both dead and alive). Everything that she had did in the first book and in this one was for them (also Edan, cause they got very mushy in this one it was VERY cute). You could just see/tell that the love and the memories that Maia has for her family was so strong and it was the thing that she cared about the most no matter what.

One of my only gripes about this book is that there are some scenes, sentences and passages that were NOT needed. There were some monologues that were said by some of the characters that were used to provide information about some one or an even that had happened, but I felt like that these pieces of information could have been given/delivered differently. This is specifically present towards the last third/fourth of the book as we get to the climax, and at that point the ball was rolling so fast that these long speeches kind of took me out of the story

Characters:
-Maia: She was definitely DIFFERENT in this one (which makes sense with what happened at the end of book 1), so her actions made sense & I liked seeing her struggle with the consequences of book 1
-Edan: He is SUCH a cinnamon roll