In this book we get a third pov which bothered me at first because I do not particularly like the character. However I like that I do not like the character. Does that make sense? Everyone is distinct and everyone has flaws and different ways of thinking and acting and all that you feel through the writing. I really really like that, even though it is this that makes the third pov all the more bothersome. Oftentimes when a book changes pov it feels like pointing the camera at a different person but still standing behind the camera. Sabaa Tahir drops the camera. She does open some storylines that I think would have benefited from being opened sooner or at least hinted at but who knows maybe she did and I didn’t notice or forgot. It all gets impossibly more complicated and intricate and dark—good heavens. The blood. The horror. I love it. It is also still ya—of course—which makes the romance…well. But it’s really just a subplot. Come to think of it the romance is really the only place where the books feel like ya. I am neck deep in the Ember Quartet now and this lovely, horrible world Sabaa Tahir has created has me in a chokehold. It is very addictive.

wow verrückt, besser als der erste teil

this book made me feel like i was going genuinely genuinely insane with all of the twists and theories it had swirling around in my head

This was action-packed, relentless, and devastating. I am hearbroken and upset, but I will keep on reading because <b>IT'S THAT GOOD.</b> Oh my God, this was just as amazing as the first book! It just kept going, and going, and <i>going</i>. I'm absolutely obsessed with this series.

okay no, i can’t get over this. been crying the whole book long lol