Mal’s back and this time Bryce joins him. This series is still not worth 3 credits, more relationship, more world building, more holes showing in. Not a ton of sex, but more is certainly implied.
Since you were introduced to Mal in the last one, you’re allowed to get to know him and Bryce in this one. There’s more story, and Mal and Bryce have character development to go through. You get to know more about the world, and get to less of a conclusion than the last one. You also spend a TON of time wanting to strangle Mal and a bit on Bryce – the story isn’t moving fast enough for the amount of time they don’t spend talking to one another or asking questions of anyone.
There’s a lot of – I need an answer to this extremely important question! I can’t tell you that now, we’ll talking about it later. Why, well… cause the plot said so? Extremely important question still hasn’t been answered 6 chapters later. Don’t worry, everything gets wrapped up nicely with a bow in time for the finale.
You get to know David better and you still won’t learn anything more about Alan, other than he spent a lot of time stuck in the past. You also learn more about the Faerie world – which other than the inhabitants seems rather interesting. You also get the impression that the world was created to keep all of the moronic seelie/unseelie inhabitants away from humans.