I'm not going to make accusations of Bad writing or anything. But I just wanted to say that I hope that book 2 Parson is also the main character. For some reason it's always always personally annoyed by authors that write one book about one character, who I grow to like enough that I want to see how his life goes, then they switch to someone else.
The worst example of this for me was Game of Thrones. Something about the guy in the prologue appealed enough to me that I started to care for him. Then he died, so I throw the book away in disgust.
Anyway, I'm just saying that I hope Book two won't do the switch on me. I don't mind a new protagonist being introduced, I just mind if the protagonist I'm interested in becomes part of the background for the next story.