I cannot, in many words, describe how I dislike the female lead of this book. This is the first for me this year, encountering someone as pretentiously independent yet all throughout annoying kind of character. I am all for female power and all but Emeuri is just the kind of character who is unnecessarily rude, rebellious, overrates her emotions and useless.

The premise of the story and how Emeuri was introduced was so promising. However, once she started joining the other casts, it became pretty obvious that her role on the story is to assume a figurehead of someone who is witty and can think on her toes pretty quick. What she did was to make mistakes over mistakes that honestly, I have to skip paragraphs just to proceed to a scene where another thought/character is involved.

The plot became predictable by Chapter 5 and though this is an attempt to introduce a political theme and the gores of war, the lack of transition variations made it difficult to appreciate the story as a whole. You can only describe blood in so many words and then couple that up with a female lead whose first contribution to the fight is nausea