This book did not live up to the first one. I was so excited to be back in this universe (even despite the sexism which is still crazy to me that you'd write an Omegaverse series and make it straight, but whatever), but I was severely let down. I still enjoyed it for the most part, but the excitement and the intrigue I had while reading the first book was simply not there.

For one, the characters were irritating, and not in a "they're just dislikable" way. The way they were written in general was what was irritating. Kiandah was so naïve and gullible and you want me to believe she's 34? She was written the same exact way a teenager in a YA fantasy would be written. She was really childish and meek and it didn't make sense for her to be that way.

Yaron was also written real weird. I'm not going to say too much about him being different between the two books because the first book wasn't about him, and he'd had enough of Adam and Echo's bullshit by the time he left them, so that's whatever. But all of that roaring? All he did was lament on "his heart" and how he broke tradition and how he owns everything and owns Kiandah and blegh. Annoying.

Also, a warning about beastiality would have been nice? I was not prepared to read a beastiality scene.

I really enjoyed the Dom/Sub dynamics in this, though. I liked that it went somewhat out of the box when it comes to Omegaverse (in that it did something different with the the Omega being dominant). I've read several Omegaverse stories where there is an Omega who isn't meek and submissive and doesn't want to be bred and mated and pampered, but this is the first time I've read an Omegaverse where the Omega was actually dominant and I appreciated it.

I'm not too sure if I'll read the next book when it comes out, I'll have to think about it. Now that things have gotten crazy in the end of this one, I might give it a chance to see how finding the rest of the Fallen Omegas go down, but I do miss Echo and Adam and I hope they come back soon.