When Night Breaks

 When Night Breaks by Janella Angeles, 480 pages.

In this sequel to Where Dreams Descend, Kallia finds herself trapped in a world stranger and more magical than she could have imagined. Spectaculore may be over, but the world of magicians she finds herself in isn't any less cutthroat than the world she came from.

This book is very stylish, but I'm afraid that's all I can say for this extremely underwhelming sequel. Despite being presented as the answer to the mysteries of the last book, it doesn't actually answer very many of the open questions, sometimes feeling like it is actively contradicting the first book. I also didn't find the ending of this book, which also concludes the series, very satisfying. This is such an unfulfilling sequel that it makes it harder to recommend the first book, knowing that many of the most intriguing questions won't get any satisfying answers.