Magic Bites question

I just finished Magic Bites, and I'm fortunate my copy included A Questionable Client and Bonus Material. I like the characters, and although I expected battles and such, for me it got way too gory and violent, all the explicit dissection of body parts, muscles, beheading, bones, etc. It felt more like horror than UF.

I'm a slow reader, so I need to be pretty sure I'll like a book before I tackle it. Reviewers here urge to read book 2, but can you please give me some sense of whether Magic Burns follows in the same vein (haha) with so much violent gore?

Thanks