YA Fantasy Book 2

 Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer 

This picks up right where the first book left off. We meet a bunch of new characters including Monroe who is the best and Adnie who is the worst (and also his daughter). This is completely out of order, but we don't get an on the page death for Monroe and if book 3 doesn't start with Ren telling Calla what happened then I will continue to refuse to believe that he is dead. If stupid Logan can show up and say that Shea's parents, who have been dead for basically his entire life aren't really dead, then Monroe isn't dead either. The fact that he is Ren's real father was so obvious and I saw that coming form a mile away. But why does Ren not get to have any happiness? I had just about convinced myself that Shea was in on the plot and now they show up to save everyone and Ren is fine? No torture? He has sided with the Keepers? So Ren is bad? No. He might be a jerk, but I refuse to believe that he's bad. Also, we rescue Ansel, but he's really a double agent because the Keepers stole his wolf from him but they promised they would give it back if he helped them find the Searchers, so he did. And the Searchers are really the good guys. We free Neville, Mason, Bryn, and Sabine. But Cosette, Dax, and Faye stayed loyal. Calla slept with Shea so now he's the new alpha of the pack and Bryn and Sabine have the giggles over it which is the only age appropriate thing that has happened in the entire book. The book ends with Adnie and Calla finding Ren in the house he was supposed to share with Calla. Alone. I cannot. This was a good second book. There was some movement of the plot, but not a lot in regards to the what they found in the cave; they still have to tackle the other three caves. So book three is going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting.