I loved the first, but the changes in this book ruined it for me.
341991
I waited and waited for this book, bought it as soon as it was released and started regretting ever reading it about 17% into it.  It started with Lorelei's needing to be with other men and the frequent changes to everyone's character except the one I wanted to read about  which is Alex.  Then the whole debate over sex again was just annoying and seemed like filler for where the author was at a loss of how to handle Alex.  These things ruined the book for me, I would not recommend this book.  For me the whole thing fully ended with the first book and the second never happened.
4290169
I really like the first one, but wasn't real happy with the last three.  Two much change in the personalities of the characters.
221544
It's nice to meet the gang again.  And like with the previous book, I had to have breathers every so often when I would walk away from the story - exhausting on the mind, reading so many jokey one-liners in quick succession.
I adored the first book, loved every utterance, every sentence, every character.  It had a lovely ending with all the big problems tied up, and I was happy. But this new story doesn't have an ending, the trilogy has turned into a serial. The plot feels a wee bit clunky, it has more raw sex than the last book, and the naughty innuendos have ramped up to vulgar.
The whole gypsy part of this book for me (I emphasise the 'for me' because I appreciate that many people will have a different opinion) appeared as padding and just a mite boring.  Maybe this was because I like the 'gang' so much, I hate to deviate away from them and their argumentative problems.
I still like the fangirl, Lady DeSilva,  and hope she gets her own happy romantic ending - there must be someone out there for her.
I think the problem for me is that nothing could surpass the wonderful "Lightening-Struck Heart".  I think I will look upon that story as a stand-alone, and read it again and again.
I am in pain over what could be coming up in the final book.  I would never read Klune again if anything ultra-bad happened to my fave characters.
871705
When I read the first book, I found the story entertaining. However as I delved into the second book. I found the characters different but the scenario a repeat of the first book. I felt like I was reading a rewrite of the first book. I liked the characters but more originality is needed by the author. Sorry. But that is my honest opinion.
3222777
It was so stupid because I just read the first one and as I keep on reading I expect something to change but nothing does. I mean I really love her books but seriously what is this .so I would not recommend this book.
1671064
I'm torn between giving this book 3 or 4 stars, and I had high hopes for giving it 5. I just didn't like this book as much as the first book.

First off, let me say that I really dislike trilogies, and I feel like Christian publishers really milk the trilogies. Had I know that the first book was a part of a trilogy, I would not have read it. However, I really loved the first book, so I went out on a limb and went for the second book. It had a great start, but towards the middle I started to really not like Juliette anymore. I felt like the plot became kind of boring, not so realistic, and very anxiety ridden. I met my husband through the internet, and we made a relationship between California and Wales work, which has included many immigration hurdles. So the fact that Juliette struggled so much with the idea of a long distance relationship just got on my nerves. I also disliked her attitude towards Neil's home and life. It just felt very biased towards Portland and made her very inflexible. Not my cup of tea. And I really didn't like how she kept telling Neil that she loved him and spent so much time kissing him, yet spent so much time worrying about it all. Oy . . . I know people are fickle, but it just got old to read about it. For a book published as Christian fiction, I'd hope she would have spent more time praying and seeking the Lord about a potential spouse rather than proceeding in the way she did.

But like many other reviewers stated, the rest of the story and characters I did enjoy, which is why I am giving the book 4 stars. I just think that a lot of the middle section could have been shortened or cut out, and the relationship between Juliette and Neil could have been less anxiety ridden.

Lastly, I hated being left with a cliff hanger ending, especially when the third book won't be out for a full year. I'd much rather read all the books together. But such is life, and next time, I will check if the book is part of a series before purchasing the first one.
2777210
I LOVED this series and was really excited for the new book.  This book is not like the other books, the writing style has less imagery (I liked the imagery of the other books) and we alternate points of view between Juliette and Warner.  We do get more information on the history of the Reestablishment.  We meet a few new characters, but only one does anything interesting. The old characters, except Kenji, only have name drops here and there. What I really don't like, and why I want to forget the whole book, is the strong Juliette that emerges in Ignite Me goes back to doubting herself. I hated the conflict between Juliette and Warner, and the cliffhanger ending was out of nowhere.  At the end of the book, I'm thinking I spent hours reading this and nothing happened except in the last few pages, and even then it was so quick there was nothing to savor.  I've already ruined one of my favorite series by reading this, so I'll still read the next book for the conclusion to see if will get better.  But I will probably borrow it instead of buying it.
1752722
But I felt that you have taken something away from the first book storyline. Ive loved the first installment because it was a fairytale begin to end. Dont think your fans needed this 2nd book. Think you needed somebody else story and not Mina & Victor to write a book. This is a great example if its not broken, don't fix it.
4964459
I loved the first book, "Voidhawk," and eagerly looked forward to reading this sequel. My first reaction was "What happened to Dexter?" He went from an interesting character to a mean-spirited, abusive person, lashing out at  anyone who came near. Other characters seemed to simply be targets for the captain. The storyline for Rosh was a mess. And the blood and killing -- goof grief, although i loved battle-oriented stories, this was literally over-kill. Many places I felt the plot line jumped without warning, and some-how I missed how they went 10,000 years into the future. The finnish felt rushed and incomplete. I will not be purchasing this author's work again. Sad, as it started out, in my opinion, with such promise. I do give three stars for some originality in places, overshadowed as it was by flaws. (And I'm not going into the proofreading and editing errors, which are just embarrassing for the author and his "proofreader".)
3153
Like the first book, it continues to slowly introduce grammar concepts while teaching you Katakana. I like the fact that he moved the answer sections to right after the questions, so you don't have to go searching all the way to the back to check your answers.

But the pet peeve of mine from the first book continues, and actually get worse. He likes to introduce new words and phrases in the short dialogues that aren't defined in the appendix. And it is even worse because now you have two books worth of those phrases which are also often not in a real dictionary either. Also there are a few noticeable typos that jumped out at me.

This isn't factored in my review score, but if you are following the books with the website the quality of the web courses drops dramatically. There are no matching games like there are for the first book. Nor are their the inline mini quizzes.
1605673
Whilst I really enjoyed exploring pround change (rating of 4), I thought this book was a follow up and was excited to read it.  However, when I started reading the book, I realized that is the same book as the first one, but with a different title on the cover page.  This is not clear via Amazon or the publisher.  So whilst I would recommend the actual book, I am annoyed that I now own 2 copies and feel that someone needs to make sure people know this before they acutally purchase this book.  My recommendation to Amazon and the publisher is to clear this up.
4640110
I'm so disappointed in this book. I had pretty good expectations after the first in the series, as I liked that quite a bit and the characters had quite a bit of potential. I won't provide a plot summary here since others have done that, but I would suggest that unless you thought the first in the series was absolutely one of the best books you've ever read, do not read the second one. It disappoints on so many levels. The most overwhelming problem I had with this book is its tone, which stays consistent throughout its entirety.

From the very beginning it is full of bitterness, despair, depression, anger, hatred and disillusionment. While I thought Valerie had some potential in the first book, she lost everything in the second. Her character was so dismal and dreary that I lost all desire to read the book even though there was quite a bit of good suspense throughout. While reading, I literally began to feel depressed from all the anger, bitterness, sadness and bickering that the characters portrayed; a reader can only take so much! We get the point already! Even the sex scenes, which were decent, could not make up for the complete negativity that followed all of the characters. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all about a good measure of darkness in my books, but there is a difference between the dark nature of characters and the complete and total misery of everyone involved, for the whole book!

The last problem I had was with the editing errors; there were quite a few. Unfortunately, one thing that I have noticed with the increasing number of digital books, is also the increasing amount of editing errors. Either the publishing process is not as heavily scrutinized because the books are digital, or something is being screwed up in translation. Sadly, this book also had some of the worst editing errors that I've seen in any digital book so far. I understand that the price is low (I can't really complain at $3.99) but I'd rather pay a bit more for better quality work.
487481
Two years ago I wrote a review for this book giving it 3 stars. Looking back on it I now realize that I was being far too kind.
  I was, overall impressed with the first book. I was ten ,it had angels and demons in it, and a promise of a romance that was less creepy than in Twilight. However what i read in the second book really disappointed me. First there was that awkward tension between almost all of the characters that almost always had to do with their love life. Not a lot of progress between characters was made and I was really hoping for some  character development. Also, there is almost none of the disgust that should be shown towards Jace and Clary`s incestuous relationship. I mean to each their own but the only person who seemed creeped  out in the least was Simon, and that was most likely due to jealousy. Even if this is a fantasy novel there is now way that a bunch of teens who's family's are not comfortable with homosexuality are this comfortable with incest. I have nothing against taboos but even in Flowers in the Attic there was a mutual disgust. Also, Clare really needs, as other people have said, to get a thesaurus. I found myself reading the same descriptions over and over again and found myself being very bored.
  In conclusion, despite my lack of overall satisfaction with this book i still have hope for the next couple thousand spin-offs to come, because we all know that this book series is never really going to end
3777063
It wasn't as good as the first one.  It seems to drag on listlessly with characters I found boring.  The writing itself flowed well and was excellent, but it was a step down from the first book and it was dissatisfying.  I am having a hard time caring about it or wanting to finish.
3613980
I really loved the first book in this series, it was from one perspective. When I read the second book, the perspectives started switching, but it was still good. The third book had (for me) way to many characters. Every time the perspectives switched it was a different set of characters. And I know this is epic fantasy and it covered a lot of space, but even with reading all three back to back I couldn't keep all the people straight.
1474387
They have changed so many of them. I had a book that looked just like this and was hoping this was the same thing and it was not at all.
1680177
I enjoyed the romance and love in the first novel, so I was excited about this one as well. I was even more excited when I discovered the new point of view of the narrator. As I was reading, I was expecting more and more of a story to unfold, but it never really did. In addition, the verbiage was the exact same as when Lane was narrating, and I felt like the contrast between a guy's perspective and hers should have been more prominent. The final aspect that probably bothered me the most, however, were the unmistakable spelling and grammatical errors. I was astounded at the lack of editing in this text, especially coming from a professional author. The mistakes hindered the read greatly. I recommend stopping after the first novel while you're ahead.