This book was interesting, although I did find it less interesting than the first book. Mal was insufferable in this book, but Alina’s character was more interesting. The ending was a bit confusing, and I’m honestly not entirely sure what happened between the Darkling and Alina in this book. Otherwise this was a pretty good book.

Also the relationships in this book are weird. In the first book I was definitely rooting for Mal, but he was terrible in this book and was getting mad at Alina for stupid reasons, and he missed Zoya which sucked. And Nikolai being a love interest for Alina was completely brushed over. He said how he feels about her twice, and then it was completely forgotten about. And what to say about the Darkling. He is disgusting and he’s basically been like stalking her, or he visits her randomly and it’s just super weird and creepy.