Suffered the usual sequel issue: after the build up to the climax of the first volume, restarting with this one was annoyingly slow. I also was on the verge of getting irritated by the love story and politicking over just finding out the answers – until, suddenly I was totally caught up in the story again and finding out so many little ‘ooh!’ bits with yet more mystery being added!

Not as good as the first, but made me reach for the final volume almost before the pages had finished closing on this one!!