This book had me experiencing some very conflicting thoughts. There were strong moments where the scenes were vivid and captivating. But there were a lot of moments in between where I felt lost in the details and was just reading to get through.

The world building in book 1 was not as thorough as I would have liked, but I was hopeful that it would expand more in book 2. Unfortunately I don’t think I really grasped the world building any more in this one either. I think it was trying to be more and bigger and in some ways became too much to comprehend. The gods and their abilities were unfathomable at times.

As a reader who visualizes scenes as I read, I found this book very difficult to visualize. It was either too detailed in mundane things or not detailed enough/to abrupt in other ways.

Kiara and Jude spend a lot of this book tackling the connection issue they discover between the two of them in book 1. It felt like a very long and repetitive cycle in this book with lots of things happening all with the same results?

I do love the shadow wielding badass FMC with the light wielding MMC to balance each other out. I think this was a fun twist that carried a lot of the story. 

Everyone gets a love interest in this, too which I don’t think was necessary. Did I love the pairings anyway? Yes.

In general, I liked the story. I liked the beginning, the first 1/3 was strong at continuing the story from book 1 and it really does just jump right into things. The middle was slow and confusing at times. This is where I struggled the most. But the final 1/3 was again picking up pace and bringing things to a conclusion in a way that was enjoyable.

Thank you to Entangled Teen for this advance copy. My review is completely voluntary, completely my own, and always completely honest.