I have long anticipated this book because the summary intrigued me. While I wasn’t disappointed, I also wasn’t wowed.

There are too many side characters. Characters would appear and I wouldn’t remember who they were or what they were supposed to know (and thus I didn’t know what they were in danger of finding out).

The index of the book used to be the prologue and I wish it were there to explain the magic system even though I know full well that I would have glossed over it. A prologue people might skip but will at least know it’s there, an index will be ignored by a majority of people. Also the published prologue is extremely meh.

Part way through the book, the focus shifts from AB to Matthew and it feels like the book is saying okay AB is fixed even though that is not the case at all. 

On the plus side: I loved both of the main characters, they were fleshed out and I felt for both of their struggles. Also I loved the illustrations.