MISSING.

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This book was missing quite a bit for me. I even realized in the first half that things weren’t going well and hoped for a better second, but alas. I’m left with more questions than answers.

Plot wise I felt like there were many holes. There were quite a few things that I kept wondering, why did that happen? What did it serve? And moments where sub plots just didn’t track. Even the ending was suuper open and didn’t satisfy anything I needed.

One good sub plot I did like was about mothers. The things mother’s are willing to do and stretch for to save their children, help them, or just be in the same space as them. A lot of these sentiments were great and maybe this as an adult book with more of that would have hit better.

The romance was super underdeveloped. I wasn’t even marginally invested and confessions of love were being thrown about. The villain’s were too obvious and one dimensional. And I’m not even sure the FMC did anything?! A bunch of stuff was happening to her, but she barely made any moves until the last few chapters.

The base of the writing was fine and the audiobook was great. This was not for me though.

Overall audience notes:
- YA Fantasy
- Language: none
- Romance: kisses
- Violence: medium
- Trigger/Content Warnings: loss of children (side character, off page but recounted), loss of parents, mentions of child prostitution