Sunbringer

A fantastic sequel to an amazing first book! I really liked the pieces coming together and building up for an absolute nightmare of a showdown in the third book.

I will say that there was a lot of slow-moving plotting and worldbuilding and politicking (a lot of dialogue) in the middle half of the book, punctuated with some action, but most of the action was at the end of the book. 

The realizations and plot twists, I think, were done really well. The dramatic irony between the different POV characters came to a head nicely. 

If I had to critique something, I'd say make the showdown between Elogast and Arren a little longer. I did like Inara a lot in this one, she had drive and agency with the flaws one would expect from a traumatized preteen (especially one with god powers).

Definitely gonna get the third book the moment it's released!