FINALLY I'M FREE. I don't mean to sound miserable but this was the second worst book I've read this year. I had high expectations for book. Exceptionally high. And it all fell flat very quickly. An adult fantasy plot revolving around a troubled woman of color, she goes to Yale to uncover the truth of a murder whilst dealing with Yale's secret society and the uncovering's of her dark backstory? Sounds right up my ally, everything I tend to love in a book. However, trigger warning's and obvious shock-value bits aside, NOTHING happens in this book. This story being told in almost 500 pages makes absolutely no sense; this could've been cut significantly and it would've improved the overall pacing of the novel. It's so slow at first and only picks up around chapter 7 (100+ pages in) when we begin learning about Alex's backstory.

This book has a problem where it'll get fairly interesting, usually when describing some of the trauma/abuse Alex is going through, or has went through, and then the next 50+ pages is a bunch of nonsense. Not to mention it's so description heavy. Like paragraphs upon paragraphs of information that does very little to move the actual plot along. Half the time I sat wondering what the point of it all was? Like why was I sitting there "wasting time" on these paragraphs when I could be reading the meat and potatoes of this book? Just for that to be the "meat and potatoes."

The likelihood of me reading the next installment(s) of this series when they release is very slim. God bless you all who liked this book, though.