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This is another one of those stories I've had on my TBR list for a long time. Since the movie came out, actually -- although I've not seen the movie.

It was okay. A good story, and pretty absurd (which was the point), but I feel like it could've been better. Maybe if we'd heard a bit more about Benjamin's mom, for example... Although maybe she died in childbirth; we're not told. For that matter, what must it have been like to give birth to a fully grown man?

Sure, in the time in which this story was set, we don't really worry too much about what women think, and we certainly don't talk about things like childbirth in great detail, but still. There are other women in this story who got quite important roles. Why not Benjamin's mother?

This story raises more questions than it answers... but again, that's probably the point.

Also the ebook I read wasn't very well edited. I kept seeing line breaks in the middle of sentences, and weird punctuation. Maybe it was OCRed from the print version, and that's why.

I should point out, however, that this is the very first work I've ever read by this author. I've never read The Great Gatsby either.

This is a nice continuation to the story in Blood Mark. It's the same characters, but a brand new adventure, and the titular marks have evolved.

I like that the author reminds us of all the thing we need to know, so it's not as if you have to read this one immediately after the last one or you'll forget. I don't think you'll be able to enjoy this book if you HAVEN'T read the first one, but if it's been a while, don't worry. You'll be reminded of everything you need to know.

I can't put my finger on it, though... but this one just wasn't as good as the first one. It didn't keep me quite as enraptured, I found myself putting it down for days and days at a time and not missing it. It was just a little more predictable, I think.

I'll still read the next one, because there are only three books and I want to finish the story. If I'd just finished Book Two of a twenty-book-deep series, I might feel differently, but since there are only three, I may as well.