Loved the idea. Not crazy about the actual execution. The writing was particularly hard for me as I'm used to Kova's style but this book had another author...and honestly it came off clunky with some odd sentence structures (and some misspellings in my copy). Too bad but I'll watch for Kova's next solo work.

my biggest issue is the "explanation" that is given (or honestly, not given) for basically every aspect, rule and logic of the world and "magic." it didn't come off as teasing me to learn more but rather like the authors themselves didn't know.

PS the use of "doll face" made me cringe so hard EVERY TIME IT WAS USED.