Scarlet

I started this book off already not very impressed with book 1, but the setting and concept was great and I wanted to give it a try. But I was again disappointed. The writing did not much improve and the plot was just as annoying. The characters' personality traits were either very loud or totally contradicted themselves for plot convenience. The characters are also very dumb. If they realised things at the speed of me reading it 3/4 of the plot wouldn't have happened, which makes it quite annoying to keep reading. The writer really underestimates the intelligence of the reader. ex. Wolf is so clearly a werewolf and having scarlet go “what are you” is just.. 

Somethings that could have been really cool were only limitedly used. Like Iko's connection with the ship mechanics to express visual emotional ques. They are only shown when someone is in direct conversation with her. But she is always listening so why is it never added in the other, often quite heated, conversations that happen on the ship. Does she suddenly have a stone-cold poker face?

I also would have liked to see Wolf's backstory. It seemed way more interesting then Scarlets from the tiny glimpse of it we are given totally at the end of the book. 

All in all, I didn't like it and probably won't be continuing with this series anytime soon.