A pretty good follow up to book one after a rough start involving a heavy and silly dose of self denial on the part of the mc that fooled exactly no one.
Lots of heavy hints about upcoming darkness and drama, and a lot of unrelieved sexual tension for the mc and her romantic interest - which they deserve if they expected any privacy in the kitchen of a house with 4 other people wandering around in it.
In true Jones fashion, there's no one story line, but rather multiple small things that happen and several resolutions brought about, some more exciting than others. Defiances' climbing of her personal learning curve might be a little conveniently easy, if for the author, if not herself, but given the publication time frame of these stories, it's understandable, and the story works in spite of it as long as you aren't looking for anything too meaty or involved.
I'm looking forward to book three and the chance to revisit the characters.