Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: The 2nd book is grossly inferior to the first book!

I loved the first book; it was one of the most original, entertaining, action-packed fantasies that I have ever read! The 2nd book is like a poor immitation of an emotionally wrought Barbara Hambly novel. Rabbit has learned nothing, and he is more of a victim than anything else. The book starts out promising but is soon bogged down in hopeless action after hopeless action against the evil demons. I so wanted to like it, but it really was a struggle to finish it. I won't give up on the series just yet, but this hard-to-find 2nd book is not worth the money that the used book dealers are holding out for.