Gosh, where do I even begin...🥲 I came in wanting to love this. I saw every booktoker out there absolutely hyping this up and I really wanted to love this. But boy, did it work for my love. 

It started out quite interesting and then for the first half of the book, we get... nothing. And I mean absolutely nothing but CRUMBS.🤯 Which made reading this painfully frustrating. I was SUFFERING for a whole 60% of the book, ready to scream for it to give me SOMETHING.😭 When they said "slow-burn", they meant painfully sluggishly slow. I nearly, so very nearly, DNFed it at 55%.🙏🏻 If it wasn't for my book club, I would have dropped it. But I didn't. I pressed through.💪🏻

Thankfully, it really started to pick up around the 65% mark, the story became more engaging, the characters had more depth and the world came to life.🥹 As the conflict came to a peak, everything was so chaotic and I could hardly catch my breath as the action packed on. Once it dwindled, we were left on a cliffhanger, which I had already suspected we would be, considering the pace and anticipated 2nd book.

Now, I am torn on whether I hate this book or if I actually like it. Lowkey feeling like I should channel Odessa and say I hate it when I actually don't.😂 But I can't find it in my heart to give it 4 stars after it stressed me out so much in the first 60% - this bish holds a grudge.😘 But now I'm hooked, I'm invested, I'm sat. 

To the lovely author, I beg of you, please don't make me endure the same torment in the next book, I won't do it 😭🤣💔 (also I lowkey love-hate you now, thank you bye)