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What a disappointment. The first book wasn't fantastic, by any stretch, but it was so much better than this. I guessed every single plot point along the way, except for the ones where information was deliberately kept from the reader. Which brings me to one of my major complaints about this book... it used a lazy writer trick that happens to be a big pet peeve of mine: the character knows information but doesn't share it with the reader. It's something that a writer can sort of get away with if the story is written in third person, but you've got a first person narrative, it's just plain bad writing to say "I looked at the back of the skull and came to a startling realization that changed everything. Minor Character Standing Nearby looked over my shoulder, saw the same thing and let out a loud exclamation." And then wait until the end of the book to clue the reader in on what they saw. It's frustrating and it cheapens the story.

If this had been the first book of the series, I never would have bothered finding the second one. As it was, I had to struggle to finish reading it. In short, the book left me annoyed, somewhat bored and just interested enough it how it was all going to finally be "revealed" that I read to the end.