Literally just finished so these are my raw thoughts….. I did NOT enjoy this as much as Vicious and from the set-up of things early on I thought there was a chance I would but no. The story and premise of all of this is very interesting but I felt the same way in Vicious, Schwab‘s writing can be veryyyy pedestrian.  A more detailed writer is fleshing ALOT of this stuff out way more and making these new characters introduced way more interesting. The “main two” side characters introduced in this book did not keep my interest much and I questioned one’s main motive and another’s decision on how they treated a character they claim to care THE MOST about. Some very interesting decisions in this. I understand having to/wanting to introduce more characters and expand this world but I would have been down for more taken to build up these characters.  They were certain moments and stretches of this book that I enjoyed. Mainly with Victor, Sydney or Eli involved. Dominic had some interesting stretches in this as well but overall. The build leading up to what we got was not all that for me. Ending was meh but I do have a theory to that. I’m still going to check out Victorious this October as it’s the final book to see how things get wrapped up.  3 Stars. Big letdown from Vicious which I had at 4.