I started this book right after the first one and I was really hiped, but I think that  some things could had been handled better. First of all some scenes could be shorter and still reassume everything perfectly, the FL is too dumb, which is really strange because in the first book she was the smartest ( now I understand the plot exigence but that is too much), Xaden is the most coherent character ( he makes a choice and just goes with it),  the side characters are too marginal and poorly developed. The author, in my opinion, dedicated too much space to Xaden and Violet's arguement.
Last but not least Tairn and Andarna best characters, change my mind.

P.s. it might seem that I didn't like the book but I actually did, in my opinion somethings could have been written better.