Well, it is never a good thing when you finish a book with the question "what was the point of this?"

There was no character development whatsoever, it could certainly be about 200 pages shorter, everything was not taken seriously by the narrative so it made the stakes feel very non-existent. I didn't feel anything for the protagonists this time (which is a shame because I remember enjoying them in the first book) and I found myself struggling to care about their relationship. And the rest of the characters simply didn't had enough going on for them, and the found family thing fell so short this time around. On the fantasy aspects, it could have been so much more but it was all scrapped for the romance...

Basically, we could have done without this book.