Archenemies

erasing my initial review now and lowering my rating 4ish months later, looking back, realizing a few things ...

this book was very middle book. at the time reading it, i thought it was continuing on the interesting moral dilemma issue that was raised in the first book, but looking back after having read the whole trilogy now, i realize it was NOT, and this book introduced a new plot point that was incredibly stupid and ended up imo ruining the entire concept of this.

the characters were still entertaining in this and you can see from my reading activity at the time i WAS entertained, but i also realize looking back that it was all really cheap and wore off extremely quickly, and once it did, the story itself really fell apart and i cared less and less. i'd never reread this, and in my heart this is a 2 star read (solidly at “it was ok”) but i was entertained, so i'm splitting the difference and leaving it at 3 stars. but idk. i don't think it was all that great sozzzzz