Review: Not as good as the first.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
I'm sure you will enjoy this book if you loved the first one, so feel free to totally disregard my thoughts...For me, this wasn't exciting or captivating like the first book. The writing felt a little...off at times. Not quite as engaging or smooth as the first one. I found the mystery uninteresting and the giant rats sort of interesting, but not really creepy or shiver-inducing as most people seemed to find. The romance between Stephen and Crane kind of....got too sappy for me. Maybe that's not the right word to use. I liked their push-pull in the first book. I didn't see as much fun banter between them in this one, really. I guess I was expecting there would be more sequels and so their relationship would take more time, face more struggles, ect. Light spoiler: But things between them already seem so settled, particularly by the end, I don't see where else we can take them...In the end, I liked it. Not as much as I was expecting I would, but it wasn't bad. I guess my overall feelings can be summed up as 'ehh...it was okay'. Maybe it was just due to too high or wrong expectations..