Helpful Score: 3
More intriguing confusion, a little better than the first book. Once again it starts out swimmingly as Thorn St. Croix is brought to trial in her home town of Mineral City for concealing her mage heritage. Then the story bogs down again, moving forward in fits and starts as demon spawn attack the town trying to get to Thorn. There is much more action in this book but after awhile the battles got a little tiring, and a story line is rehashed as Thorn goes back under the mountain again to do battle with the Darkness as in the previous book. I like Hunter's ideas, but she needs to do better with her pacing and stop overusing descriptive phrases that sound alike even if they're not repeated word for word. Her habit of repeatedly bringing her protagonist to the brink of death and being healed by seraphs is also getting a little old and a tad over-dramatic. Still, she managed to hold my attention, especially with the bits of revelation about her characters doled out little by little, and even makes me want to read the next book - but not enough to pay full price for it. I might borrow it from the library.
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