Second books in a series come with heavy responsibilities: will it live up to the energy that was introduced in the first book? will the story progress or will the characters fall into the sophomore abyss where a series stalls out? Happily, The Tainted Khan comes in with even more energy than Dragon Rider. Jai and Winter return to his people and he works to strengthen his powers, unify the tribes against the Sabine Empire, and maybe even takes a minute for a romantic tryst. The expository info dumps of world building that weighed down the first book of the series are better integrated into the action of this story, and there is more action in this iteration. There is some politicking within and between tribes, dueling and battles, and a journal that Jai studies and may complicate his story. Overall, I enjoyed this turn in the saga and am even more curious about the next turn after the revelation at the end of the epilogue.
I received advanced digital access to this book thru NetGalley (for which I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher, Avon and Harper Voyager) for an honest review. The opinion expressed here is my own.

First off, thank you to Harper Voyager for providing me with an eARC!

Jai and Winter's epic story continues right where the first book left off! Taran Matharu filled this booked up with action-packed scenes that had me envisioning it all in my head like a movie!

The writing was so well done for third person, and just everything was planned out so nicely.

The downside I could say was that it was a little predictable, but the ending of the book, aka the cliffhanger that was not predictable, not at all!!