**I received this book as a free eARC. These are my own thoughts and opinions. Thank you to Ang T. Dalton & BookSirens for giving me the opportunity to read & review this book!

-- Possible Spoilers Ahead--

What an ending.

The Darkness Within took everything that was good about The Scars Within, and amplified it.

Ang does such a good job at building her characters and the story. I absolutely loved the introduction of Fallon, and the secrets behind her and Scar's birth. While we were left in the dark in book one about everything (because we only knew as much as Scar did), everything gets blown up into the open in book 2.

I cried with Scar every time she dreamt of Laney. I loved her. Laney was a perfect example of the sunshine character who wasn't truly miss sunshine. While most people would just assume she's a happy go lucky girl, Scar saw that she wasn't. For Scar to lose someone like that, who was so like her in the opposite way, was devastating.

And don't even get me started on Shayde. That boy. I loved him in book one. I did have an inkling that he was working with the Grim, but for him to completely turn like that was not what I was expecting. With book two, I feel like we got to see the real Shayde, and his character development was great.

The ending left me desperate for more. I cannot wait to see how things play out!