It had too much of the elements that made the first book good. Too much introspection, too much pathos, too many (by now expected) twists, too many useless conversations that become irrelevant the moment they end. At some point I felt there was just no reason to pay attention to what was happening at any given moment. Then I actually stopped listening. Somewhere in the early stages of the third act, the place where I reader should be really invested, I listened to another pointless conversation that added nothing to the plot or to my experience, and turned the audio book off.