I mean I guess there's no particular reason I should have expected interrogation -- the Sorcery & Cecelia books are very non-interrogatory -- but then, the conventions of Regency fluff are so well-established and feel at least a little further away from our own time and problems than the excesses of the Four Hundred Families ...

That said, it did really feel to me as if it was written with a book two expected, but perhaps not confirmed Because Publishing.