Going in, I wasn't sure what to expect from this book. Martial arts mixed with ice skating sounded a bit too far-fetched for me, as strange as that sounds, but, once you make yourself comfortable in the world, it grows on you. Lien creates such an immersable world here, though I wish we could have had seen at least some moments of Peasprout in Shin so that we could see the differences in cultures and power dynamics a bit better, but maybe we'll see that in the future.

At first, I thought things came a little too easy for Peasprout. She excelled so much in whatever she did that it was starting to become a tad unbelievable. However, it becomes clear that Peasprout's struggle in the book doesn't come from her academics, but from the prejudices she encounters and basically being an outsider in this new world.

I'm very interested to see what Lien will touch on in the next installment and how this world can become even bigger.