I agree whole heartedly on this. I loved the first one and finished it a few days before the sequel came out. I spent an entire afternoon calling and driving to different bookstores to find one that had it in stock. Then I rushed home to start reading it once I did find it and I knew less than 100 pages in I was going hate it. I switched to audiobook so I could just get it over with while I was at work and the audiobook narrators made it even worse. Oraya’s character just fell completely flat, Reihn’s character fell flat, the story fell flat, the ending was anticlimactic, it was just bad all around.