Chris R (for Reading) finished reading Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota #2)
Compared to the first book, this one was a lot easier to get into and stick with. I think that by the time I got here, I had a sense of the world, and the characters, a bit better.
The book does suffer, a bit, from a case of the "I've got lots of names for the same person" issue, which always causes friction for me when I'm trying to get into a novel, but by the time I hit book 2 I'd gotten used to most of them.