I promise I wanted to like this book, but it was pretty clear from the start that it was going to be a struggle for me. I see what the author was doing and I respect what she was going for, but there was just a bit too much that hampered my enjoyment.

The writing was my biggest hurdle and it didn't get any better by the end. The prose is very basic, and I think it was exasperated by the audiobook. Listening to someone narrate "I saw x. I did y." levels of sentence over and over quickly got on my nerves. The plot itself has been done before and didn't feel like it tread any new ground. Keera was a character I could get behind, but there were moments that felt... not really inconsistent, but poorly communicated. And that just goes back to the writing issue.

Clearly there are lots of people who really enjoy this book (and I'm happy for them!) and I'll definitely keep an eye on this author for future releases because I think there's some real promise, but I don't think this series will be for me.