I really loved the premise of this book: a secret inn hidden away that acts as a gateway to different worlds? A murder mystery with the politics of other worlds involved? A bisexual MC? I really wanted to love this book (and the cover had nothing to do with it at all…). 

 

But what follows is a whole lot of hand-wringing and a lot of repetitive dialogue. Unfortunately, Maddie the main character, really started to frustrate me, and while I realise she has been thrust into a position of power during a delicate situation but I really wanted to shake her sometimes to grow a spine! 

 

The final plot twist was a goodie (but admittedly there were some very obvious red herrings…) but this just felt like a fairly generic YA fantasy that could’ve been ground-breaking, but just…wasn’t…