I really wanted to read this well firstly, because of the cover it is stunning and a massive congrats to the designer. Secondly, the plot: set in a library, a library that reverends? I'm in. I don't know what happened to me here. But just getting through the first 38 pages took me *checks notes* almost two months. I started it and then saw the word dust and I thought Northern Lights and I was okay so I kept reading and then I read sandy, and I thought to myself: "Dear God, they're on Dune" which makes no sense because Dune is the title and the planet is something else. So I put the book down because Dune was not for me, then I picked it back up read the next few pages and thought 'okay, fear over, onto the book'.

The two main characters are Evar and Liviria. You meet Liviria first (her name means weed) I honestly found her annoying in the first three chapters, I don't really know why but I did. But it got better, I loved the writing and the world building and the way the characters link up at the end. It is slow (kinda) and it sometimes gets confusing and sometimes you feel like you haven't really made any progress, but it's worth it. At least for me it was. I want to read book two and I eagerly await it.

And that's it.

Thank you to HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction, HarperVoyager for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.