This one was even better than the first one. Although I loved it, I noticed a bunch of people who didn't mentioned that it seemed more like a disjointed series of events, rather than one story. In this book, Taylor has avoided this, and each of the events is clearly connected to previous ones. It makes me wonder if the first one was mostly meant to be a set-up, have Max join St Mary's and show the readers what sort of stuff they do and get to know (and love) the characters, and then this one was the actual real beginning of the series. I looked around about and apparently the first book in the series was self publish, so possibly sort of testing the waters?

Anyway, this second book was more sort of streamlined, following a specific thread through the whole book, even gave me an AHA! experience or two on the way when things came together. Also, Max' assistant. Looking forward to learning more about Max' assistant. I see potential in that one.