well, the cover is gorgeous.

i really struggled to feel connected to any part of this story, to be honest. the world building is somehow really light and heavy handed at the same time, the characters felt really two dimensional through the whole book, and the beginning 50% of the book felt confusing and vague on purpose to set up for the big reveal in the final third.

that being said, the reveal itself was engaging and interesting, so the final third of the book was saved for me. it just took incredibly too long to reach any sort of understanding of what was going on and i found myself losing focus and interest.