The second Grisha book! Alina and Mal start the story on the run, but they get brought back into the narrative of the trilogy quickly enough, with the Darkling forcing Mal to find the second amplifier, a sea serpent. Helping them find it is a privateer with a big secret, who double-crosses the Darkling and allows Alina to acquire the second amplifier, which makes her even more powerful.
They then join forces (sort of) with a priest who has been calling her a saint, and now she has a whole following, and the privateer is revealed to be something more significant than he is, and Alina has a mindmeld connection with the Darkling now, and a whole bunch of middle book of the trilogy stuff happens where everything becomes more complicated. Things are afoot! And it continues along as the first one did for me, where there's a lot of interesting stuff going on, but I wanted a slightly deeper connection to the characters, and to the love story (or stories). Still a really enjoyable read! But it never fully dug its claws into me.
Grade: B
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