Ooof. I don’t usually rate books less than three stars but I’m torn between one and two stars for this. The idea could have been great but the execution was just really bad. Aside from the fact that it felt like a lot of really cliche scenes at times, the dialogue was also really cringey. If you’ve ever heard the advice show don’t tell, I feel like the first half of the book was just the characters telling us how noble they are with very little action to actually back those claims up. There were also just inconsistencies in the story that made me think this could be improved a lot had there been a good beta reader. I won’t completely write off the author based on this first read, because maybe it’s one of their first books? But it’ll definitely be a while before I give another one a shot.