*deep exhale and drops book on desk* okay...it took me five days to get myself to page 72 before I just left this book alone...I read the entire Divergent book in a day so I am not a slow reader...I just don't see the point in reading a book where I get excited when a chapter ends because I want to stop reading the book (but I can't ever stop reading mid-chapter).

I get wanting to write uniquely but the language in this book was incredibly awkward. I found myself having to reread sentences and paragraphs constantly even while sitting in a silent room without distractions. I also found the world building to be lacking. My problem following this book was definitely influenced by this and the wording and language used. There's floating vehicles, potions, refugees and alchemist yet there was like zero explanation for any of it while there was simultaneously nothing happening!

The idea is creative and I will try to return to this book and give it another go later I the year but right now...very unimpressed with this book despite my love of magic, world hoping, political uprisings, female leads and romance. I have never given up on a book this early before