A still as exciting history

I read the first volume there are a few months and I loved a favorite! I was eager to read more, unfortunately, I found this second volume less exciting and "addictive" than the first. I still had a good read!

The book is impressive, it says little, but when it's exciting, it's not a problem. Yet here I suffered a lot of lengths and lack of action.
Descriptions repeatedly, for example, different toilet Matthew and Diana quickly annoyed me. Of course it is interesting, but this aspect of the story was too far for my taste.

The beginning of my reading was quite difficult. Indeed, there are suddenly all Matthew's friends at the time, with the coup, few descriptions of these characters. I felt a little lost, and I have never really understood who was who, who said what ... So it was a bad start.

In terms of history, it is certainly always something going on, there are often (too) new characters, you travel, you learn things, it makes us revelations, but there is no action pure as I like. A little at the end, and again, it is quickly resolved ... It's really something that I missed and I hope to see in the next volume.

But there is not all bad, I assure you!

To start with, we feel that the author mastered to perfection its history, and history. It's interesting and sometimes funny to find famous people from the past, although I must admit, many did not tell me much ...

Matthew's dad is one of the strong characters in this second volume. Loved all part of the novel where it is present. Unfriendly at first, it soon becomes very engaging. I also loved the nephew of Matthew and its protective behavior towards Diana. Other characters are scary, we feel they can be unpredictable and above all, they can do almost anything. A single word or gesture on their part and it would be the end for Matthew and Diana.

Some passages are quite tense and scary, with the witch hunt that seems to spread in Europe and that could well catch Diana. Often it is hanging by a thread, the danger of turning around our heroes, often causing them to flee.

Another aspect that I loved, the passages on the present, and small impact of the leak in the past Diana and Matthew. How they stay in the present trying their best to hide these small changes, to interpret what they see. These forays into the present as keeping us "contact" with the enemies of Matthew and Diana.

I liked the last part of the novel, although I would have preferred something more "grandiose". It's a nice end, full of feelings and emotions.

In short, a second volume a bit long and hard to start and sometimes I was a little disappointed. A still as exciting story that is sustained, even if it lacks the action. This second volume takes these promises and portends us a third and final volume even louder.