It starts really slow, but it picks up by the midpoint. I tore through the last hundred pages, then had to buy TNE. There are still some things that bothered me, but the Ancients play a much more interesting role, and the onset of The Night Eternal (the plot point, not the book) was legitimately terrifying. There's a lot more of Setrakian's backstory, too, and that helps put a lot of the first book in perspective.
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