oof this book was real dumb. Like I expected that it would be but like, all of the Selection books were very dumb but somehow deliciously compelling? But this one...I mean I finished it but...very very bland. It feels like generic fanfiction where Cass expects that I'm already rooting for this very sketched out heroine without doing any character development? And the worldbuilding of this kingdom is...honestly even less-fleshed out than the nonsense world of the Selection?

Just not fun, aside from a few stupid names (Queen Thenelope).