Quinn Robbins has just returned from spending ten days in Eirentheos, a world she had never known existed. Trying to settle back into her familiar life and establish a relationship with her new boyfriend, Zander, is more of a challenge than she ever dreamed it would be.
Things are just beginning to feel normal again when the charming Prince Thomas shows up in her world, and invites her back to Eirentheos for a royal wedding. She's excited at the chance to reconnect with the people and places she had begun to fall in love with.
What she doesn't realize is just how deeply connected with this new world she might become ... and just what old secrets might be beginning to unravel.
The second book in the beloved Dusk Gate series reconnects Quinn with the charming princes, and the pristine world of Eirentheos. From a beautiful royal wedding to a dangerous rescue mission, Quinn's adventures are about to take her life on a course that will change it forever.
While I didn't love the first book, I liked it well enough to want to continue the series. To be honest, I wish I hadn't. This wasn't a bad book, but it just had too much filler to keep me interested.
After the events of the last book, Quinn is trying to get used to being back in her own world. But that's easier than it sounds when she has been gone for ten days, on an adventure, and everyone at home expects the same old Quinn. It doesn't help that William won't talk to her and that she's now suddenly in a relationship with her childhood friend. When Thomas comes to her world to invite Quinn to his eldest brother's wedding, Quinn immediately accepts and can't wait to travel back to Eirentheos. Yet, when one trip turns into another, Quinn struggles with her two lives, especially when danger appears in the world of Eirentheos.
My main issue with this book was that it took until 50% into the book for an actual plot to appear. Before that point, the book was entirely just the day-to-day of Quinn, in both the real world and Eirentheos. We had the royal wedding, but that barely moved the plot. The plot didn't move until days later. It was just all filler, and while I was fine with seeing these day-to-day scenes at the beginning, I got tired of waiting for the plot to move. When the plot did move forward it did get intriguing. This book does introduce another danger and the politics of the world. More seems to be built up, but the pacing was still slow. I actually started to skim-read scenes because it would take so long to get anywhere and I still understood what was happening.
As far as Quinn, I really don't know how I feel about her. We're supposed to see her as smart, but she seems pretty average. She does seem to want to jump in to save the day, but overall, I just thought she was an okay MC. I noticed in this book that she giggles way too much. I don't know if it's just me, but giggling should not be how you describe a young adult's laughter. She's over the age of thirteen. That's not a giggle, that's a laugh.
There is a little more romance in this book than book one. While in book one I wasn't sure who would be the love interest, now I am very certain who it will be. Despite the fact that it is obvious who Quinn really likes and who she will end up with., this book also has two other "love interests". One of which is the hometown boy and, come on, Quinn has no romantic feelings for him.
IN CONCLUSION
Overall, this book just did not interest me. Book one had some fun ideas and I liked it, but this one had such a slow pace that I just had difficulty slogging through it. This book ended in a cliffhanger-- though it wasn't a major one--but I just don't want to continue the series. One of the reasons I was slogging through was because I had a theory at the very beginning of book one that Quinn is either from Eirentheos or her father was, and I was waiting for the reveal, but this never happened.
I can tell this is a highly rated series so others will definitely enjoy it more than me. If I read it at a younger age, and with less of an editorial eye, maybe I would have liked it. But it just wasn't for me.
I hereby give this book
2 Stars
Meaning: It was okay
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