May actually enjoy this more that the first. A slow start. The ending was so politically twisty it was amazing. Left some good loose ends, though, which was annoying. My biggest thing was that Saorisa never grew out of her lying and manipulating. And she gets mad with Hayes for lying to her. That I couldn‘t stand - she should have grown somewhat from that. Otherwise, this book was borderline fun from each political side trying to trick the other.