I question the sanity of the author. Why the fuck did she decide to start the book like that? After she lost already 50% of her readers struggeling through the first book, she starts the second book like that???

- no familar character you can connect to
- complete diffuse storry-telling for the first 30 pages, then info dumb and another 50 pages of diffuse story-telling
-2nd person form (You opened your eyes... etc.)
- complete unrecognizable Harrow character

there is nothing you can connect to in the beginning of the second book. You question all the information you got in the end of the first book. And everyone starting this book struggles so hard. It was complete unnecessary. I needed to scream at my friend until I made it to page 100. And then it was another 280 pages until FINALLY things started to make sense and fell into place.
and let's be honest, we all knew it was Gideon telling the story. She could have just kept that form, there was no need at all to hide this away. At least then it would not have lost the humor you were used to in Gideon. It was also not a big secret. If Gideon would have sarcastically screamed at Harrow for all the shit she did, at least it would have been super amusing

oh and also, please remember all those unbelievable unnecessary page fillers, no one needed? And were just added to idk confuse people??? or bring back dead characters???

Does the author not want to keep readers engaged to sell the most possible numbers of book three? We read the book with our book club. We started with 10 people for Gideon. Only 5 made it through. Then we read Harrow and only 2 made it through, everyone else gave up. I mean, if you have to put in so much effort, you do not read this book for entertainment anymore. Then you can just read Ulysses tbh.

The end is worth it, and if you liked Gideon you really should keep reading. BUT GOD AM I ANGRY FOR THE BEGINNING.