I was initially a bit unsure about her focusing on entirely new characters in this second book, but the page time is split pretty evenly between Cinder and Scarlet. I actually liked Scarlet and Wolf's story line, which is really saying something coming from me because usually I see a YA book with a M/F pairing where the dude is like ~possibly evil bad boy~ and I am immediately out the door, but Meyer actually did a really good job with it. A lot of this is pretty standard YA SFF stuff, but I really like all the characters and she continues to do really interesting things with adapting familiar fairy tales into a sci-fi setting. Definitely enjoying this series so far although I'm a bit apprehensive that the last two books are so much longer.