Okay so this one is 3.5 stars, I actually liked this one a LOT more than the first one (at first) but it started to lose me in the second half… the opposite of how I felt in book 1.

- starting off with the Dusty storyline had me HYPED like it was high energy and I was loving the violence so early on
- I do think that having all the character and setting backstory from book 1 helped book 2 to jump right into things faster
- part 2 felt like a completely different book - honestly it kind of felt like the writing was so different that it could have been two authors between part 1 and part 2
- I still don’t like Violet’s random flashbacks, they just seem poorly timed
- by about the 75% mark I was over it and read to be done. The second half of the book tried WAY too hard to be over the top
- the tech stuff was cool for a little, but then was just way too much and it felt like it lost the charm of the vibe from the first book.
- I am still SO confused by the ending??? Was this a supernatural horror now? Or is this setup for a third book? Idk but I’m not a fan
- But I loved the horror elements in their basic form, the violence and gore was excellent. The action was more consistent and I was really interested in knowing what would come next