This was very entertaining. It's a vampire fantasy romance with a hunger-games-esque tournament fight to the death as a backdrop. Some parts of it I didn't love, and some things didn't make 100% sense to me, but I just went with it and enjoyed the ride. Was this a masterpiece? No. But the characters, world building, and plot was all just enough to make me not want to put it down.

This was okay, but it just wasn’t as exciting as the first book without the backdrop of the competition. The love story was fine, but I did roll my eyes in several places here. It felt like we were retreading a lot of the same ground! And I liked the Vincent storyline, but it did feel a bit like we were going in circles there too. The pacing was off and there were a lot of plot conveniences too. It was basically like the first book but without the big exciting draw! The first book was so entertaining! But this was just fine.