i didn't have very high expectations for this book because i heard mixed reviews but i ended up loving it! 


I really liked the writing style , the plot wasn't at all what i would have expected when i started this book and i mean that in a good way, the characters were well developed and i loved jude, cardan and vivi a whole lot, the worldbuilding was really cool and unlike in some other books the faeries weren't (nearly) impossible to kill by mortals

what i loved as well is that in the end the heroine wasn't powerful because she was given magic or has a man who helps her to that power but because she's strong herself the way she is, the way others still call "weak"


the only thing i would say could be a little bit better is the diversity! It was there but it could have been better and more. I especially felt like the majority of the characters that weren't green or blue were white (though there was a black faerie girl who was a pretty important side character)

+ there was a lesbian couple between one of the more important side characters and another character that sadly didn't appear a lot... still it was there and i'm hoping we get some more content of them in the next books! (what i also liked about them is that the focus isn't on the fact that they're not straight at all but it was just seen as normal as it should)


in conclusion i loved this book a lot and highly recommend it