Real rating: 3.5
After reading book 1 with that nice cliffhanger ending, I was DYING to read book 2! The chapter sample in the back didn't help either! Luckily I only had to wait a few days, so maybe I overhyped myself, but after reading book 2, I'm feeling a bit disappointed. The writing was still good, and the story progressed... somewhat, but maybe not enough for me.
Instead of delving further into the world and characters, which we do, slightly, except for Giles, who we REALLY get to know in this book, and totally made me love him! But instead of expanding the world and working on the characters relationships, I feel like there was just a lot of sex, and though I'm fine with that, it left me feeling like there wasn't as much substance to this one as there was the first. Plus Tia's constant crying, though some of the time warranted, was getting a bit annoying. I know everything she's going through is traumatic, and sad, but instead of finding healthy ways to deal with it, she mostly just hides it from her husbands, lashes out about it, cries, or bangs one of her men. It was getting a bit repetitive, so I'm hoping book 3 will be better, and will really expand on the story aspect.