I did not think any book by Olivia could knock out Celestial for the top spot, but we may just have a new winner.

Although our FMC was kind of obsessed over another guy in 60% of the book, which was confusing AF at the time. There were so many instances where modern phrases were used such as “meet-cute”, “calm your tits”, etc.I must admit that I’m a bit lost with all the characters, often we get 2 different spellings of the same person’s name (in the different languages), which isn’t helping my cause, I think I’d really benefit from a family tree. The writing is bad, the pace is bad, the characters are bad, the story had so much potential but was ruined by all the mentioned things. Listen, there's a little bit of romance, but I think Olivia is pulling a Maas and showing us one love interest but giving our heroine another (better one). I mean it has been ages scene I've seen a good well build war scene or fighting scene where everything is taken slowly and there is desperation in our hearts that if the mmf or fmc are going to survive or no. When they announced that they were doing book two and three, I figured I should read it before investing.

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The town names of everything are confusing and as a middle aged woman there is no way I can actually make out all that smudged, tiny ink. Here, the canals divide the aristocracy/Purelings from the less fortunate Halflings and then again, the humans. Of course, Fallon was written in a way that made me like her even less when she essentially uses Antoni to make herself feel better. Don't get me started on the weird "you should sell your virginity" path we headed down for no reason.

I won't delve to much on the plot as to not ruin it for others but I will say that this was a book that was a great page turner and every character held my interest to know more about them, it was great to read a story that showed the life of a girl that had a much loved but hard life in poverty and the struggles that she had to go through. The first 200 pages were a slow start- there is some world building, character introductions, etc but STICK WITH IT! However, I must say that the last 25% or so were so thrilling that I really started to enjoy the story despite the MC being annoying. The plot has fantastic potential but it's execution is sloppy and poorly explained, leaving confusing and awkwardly paced world building.

It’s hinted throughout that her heritage isn’t what it seems and when it seemed to have become clear we then get another arc thrown into the mix which just took my head a little getting around.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Overall, the interesting world and fast-paced plot definitely carried this book considering the main character was bleghhh and the romance isn’t doing anything for me right now. The ending left us at the perfect stopping spot but I'm anxiously dying for that next book, I have to know what happens next.