This story continues to fascinate me. Though nothing is ever clearly explained, I'm starting to get the hang of this world, its politics and the various species living within it. I think I enjoyed this one more than the first one, mainly because I'm familiar with the characters now and I like the dynamic they have.
Master Ren, the talking necromancer cat, is still a firm favourite of mine. He's a little firecracker.
I'm also really invested in Zinn, the monster-god creature living inside Maika. It was really cool to see the two actually working together in this volume rather than against each other. They still don't like each other, of course, but they definitely felt more in harmony this time, and I'm a sucker for that kind of character development.

One tiny gripe. This book is a strange sort of contradiction of its self in the sense that, as I said above, very little is explained and we're just thrown into the deep end of this world, however, at the end of each chapter, we get lecture excerpts which usually detail a history lesson. Though this is interesting, as it feels like we're finally getting some answers, the amount of information on that single page or double page spread is incredibly expositional. It's just one great big info dump at the end of each chapter and I can't help but think if this information was explored a little more naturally through the narrative, I wouldn't feel so lost sometimes when reading, nor overly bored when I reach these lecture excerpts.

The artwork, like before, is stunning, half manga, half traditional graphic novel art. It's like a beautiful hybrid and it's utterly gorgeous with a lovely, deep colour pallet of blacks, browns and golds. It really adds to the overall steampunk vibe of the novel.

I'll definitely be adding volume three to my reading list.