Dark Volume Book - Gothic Horror Novel for Mystery Lovers

I was so excited about this one, I re-read the first book while waiting for it to come out, which provided for a perfect experience. This volume delved further into its heroes' inner workings, providing some the darkness underlined in the title. It also explored more of the powers and effects of the glass-- not only its sensuous pulls but also the *darker*, death-inspired urges it can provoke in its viewers. The writing is fantastic, the perfect style for such an adventure. My only complaint is that it ended where it did, I would very much like for the third one to be out now, and also, not everything that seems to be, there at the end, absolutely HAS to be, right?(A side note: I'm curious as to what scenes precisely some of the other reviewers found extraneous in the first novel. Having read it twice, I felt every bit was necessary and enjoyable, and I plan to read both again before the third volume comes out, unless the author behaves and puts it out right now. It's an adventure, and should be read as such, in a swoop of hungry reading, not in those few minutes between lying down and closing your eyes every night. Some have complained that there are too many characters, but it seems to me that this speaks more to an inability to concentrate/focus on the part of the reader; each character is necessary, plays a role, defines a challenge or perimeter. THIS is the way books should be: full, like the world. So different from the blanking of your mind that occurs in front of the blue screen of the television.)(A fuller review is posted at zoe-in-wonderland.blogspot)