The Immortal Crown

I read the first in Mead's “Age of X” series and was entertained enough by it to pick up the second book. It's one of those books where every couple of pages I have to groan and go “religion doesn't work that way”, “biology doesn't work that way”, “I'm fairly certain America doesn't work that way”. And yet I enjoy the characters and when they focus more on the thriller plots instead of the author's misunderstanding of how religion works, I find the books really fun, so I will probably read the third, despite some really ridiculous plot twists.

I enjoyed it as much as the first. Like Justin and Mae, the plit, even when a bit confusing, is credible and interesting, and I'd change very little to be fully happy (ie, Justin spends 98% of the bookbeing secretive and then spills it so anticlimatically over Mae after all). The ending is ohmygosh is this a freaking cliffhanger????? But we can wait. Good job, kudos to Richelle Mead :)