Harbinger of Books

I really wanted to love this book, I thought the first one had a lot of potential so I was looking forward to this one. The book started out good but then around halfway I got confused I just could not recall a lot of the references or they didn't make sense to me. Also around this point the plot started getting overly complicated, with a lot of unnecessary conflicts. Then the very end felt very rushed. In the end I guess spellcrackers is not a series for me.