I love the Awaken Online series and jumped to start listening to this spinoff. In truth, this turned my 3 star review into 4. The first book is amazing and really well done. This second installment, while very well written, felt like 3/4 filler. The characters were forced to stay in specific situations for much longer than interesting with seemingly no real danger once they figured out a formula to defeat their foes. I finished the book feeling like maybe 3 hours of this 21 hour story actually moved the story along. As a fan, I’ll be picking up book 3 with the hope the story moves forward consistently and doesn’t linger like too often here in book 2.