Scholomance 2

I'm baffled. 1) How can the same author of Spinning Silver, which I found well written, rich and complex, have written this series, which I find the opposite? 2) I truly don't understand how this has a 4.2-star average rating on GoodReads. I tried to make it through after reading that if you liked A Deadly Education you'd like this one. I did like the first book, despite it being very info-dumpy it surprisingly didn't bother me. With this sequel it was all the worst aspects of the first amplified and none of the good. Well maybe the ending is good, like how it was with the first, but it's not worth it to keep going passed 77%.