Wildly romantic, sentimental, and dramatic, with last-second rescues and stolen kisses. This novel’s structure and story seemed more rushed and less tightly plotted than the first book, with coincidence driving key moments in the story. The nature of the gods, and their powers, played a larger role in book two, so we learn more of Enva and Dacre’s mythology, but with a corresponding loss of mystery. I found their motivations and their abilities confusing and inconsistent (though I recognize that’s pretty standard for stories of gods.) The fighting among human factions was all too heartbreakingly realistic.