3.75/5 stars

A pretty good book overall, though I had issues with the pacing and plot. The chapters can be super long, and along with page-length paragraphs, it felt like the story was dragging at parts. It did start off pretty well, but at about the midway point I started to get bored because I felt like nothing was really happening that I cared about.

It was amazing reading a book with an aroace main character though. I really loved those parts of the book where Felicity talks about how she feels because it was just so relatable. I don’t know if I loved her character though. She was annoying at times and the little pep talks she gave to herself became kind of repetitive? I did like how she was forced to confront her internalize misogyny eventually though.

Johanna was probably my favourite character. I related to her in some ways that I wasn’t expecting. I love how she confronted Felicity and showed her how wrong it was to think the way she was thinking. She’s also so bubbly and happy and likes to dress nicely—she just made me smile a lot.

I feel like I have to talk about Sim since I’m Muslim and wear the hijab and in a way I’m obligated to discuss my opinions about her. The problem is that I don’t have much to say about her. I guess she wasn’t the Muslim rep I was looking for. Her character seemed to flip constantly between being all suspicious and dangerous to all of a sudden nice and caring. I just don’t know what to feel or think about her. She wasn’t my favourite but I also don’t hate her or anything.

Overall, the book was interesting. I did like seeing how much all three girls struggle in this world that’s controlled my men and how they end up paving their own paths. It would be interesting to see what they end up doing next.

My only question: what animal is the dragon supposed to be?