This book is intense. The emotions and the drama and the atmosphere and everything grab you from the second paragraph and none of it slows down until the epilogue. I actually had to take a break after the first two chapters because I was not expecting that many feelings (and that intense of feelings) at the very beginning.

This is Lula's story. I thought before I picked it up that it was going to be a continuation of Alex's story from Labyrinth Lost, but it actually follows Alex's older sister Lula. It happens after the events of Labyrinth Lost and continues the story of the Mortiz sisters through a different set of eyes.

I didn't expect to like it as much because I was already invested in Alex from the last book, but that really wasn't an issue. I didn't necessarily love Lula in the usual sense of "loving" characters, but I felt her pain and her emotional conflict and I got really invested in her. She's a tragic heroine who tried to fix something bad and made things much worse, and I was rooting for her the whole way.

This book is dark and there's a lot going on. I can't even touch on the plot because the true state of things slowly gets revealed as Lula and her sisters discover things and they don't even find out the sheer magnitude of what's happening until near the end. The story is full of difficult decisions and emotional pain and it was thoroughly absorbing.

There's also a lot more of the bruja world - there's more than just brujas dealing with magical things, and this book reveals more of a complex and fascinating world hiding under the world we know. And the end hints that we might get more of it in the future.

Also, despite being such a dark book, it has a mostly happy ending.

I thought going in that the Brooklyn Brujas series was only two books, but I'm glad I was wrong. There's a third book coming out in 2019. My guess is it's going to be about Rose, the youngest Mortiz sister, but I'm okay with that. If it's anything like the previous two books, I'm sure I'll love it.