When the book started out by killing off my favorite character from the previous book, I almost gave up… but I’m glad I kept going. I really like Apollo’s viewpoint, how he tries to sit back and analyze the emotions of being human while still in the grips of those emotions, and the character of Maia also finally grew the spine that I’d been longing to see from the first book. I also liked the literal deus ex machina ending, nice solid conclusion.
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