This is just every Romantasy of the last 2 decades smashed together hoping you've read enough of them to engage in the characters but not all of them so you get annoyed.

No characterbuilding, rarely any worldbuilding (it's not the thrown in figure it out fun way...). 
Really if you've read anything along the lines of Chakrobaty, Sanderson, Maas, Bardugo, Tahir etc, this will be underwhelming.
I am well aware no idea can be really original anymore, but this brings NOTHING New to the table, not even in characters...

Alltho I liked the non-trad plotstructure, the pacing was wayyyyy to uneven, how do you skip a battle in 2 sentences but have more than a Dozen political blow-ups. It makes you lose any sense of scale or stakes.

I probably will read on tho bc I want to see this author learn and grow, she has so much potential if she just focused on her *own* World and characters and ideas.

After getting into it, it was entertaining enough to listen to while being sick.