I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I was very excited to read this book, and it delivered on some things that I was looking for but lacked in many other ways for me.

Let's start with what I liked:
- Having a morally grey FMC with an interesting twist at the end of the book.
- The various players and the "found family" aspect of fantasy novels that bring me a lot of joy with the rebellion members
- The plot was an interesting premise that kept me interested in what was going to happen next
- The fantasy setting was great, with various creatures, species, and dangers

What I struggled with:
- The pace of the book was so fast that I wished this was split into two books with some more scenes that built on the character relationships. I truly struggled to really care about anyone or have an opinion about the love triangle because I felt like I didn't have enough time to make an opinion. Things moved really fast throughout the whole book, which made everything seem very surface level. Having some scenes where we get to sit with our FMC and MMC (like multiple training sessions, talks around fires while traveling, dinners with the group of people she meets, etc.) without trying to hit a plot point beat would have really helped this for me and made me feel more connected to our main characters.
- In the same vein, I struggled with the magic system here because we barely saw our FMC using magic throughout the book. Some more time on that would have helped me understand how the system worked and shown that our FMC gets stronger over time, which would have given the final scenes some more believability for me.
- The timeline. I have no idea how much time actually took place in this book or how much time was between scenes. I felt lost a lot, to the point where I was trying to figure out if I was in the same scene as the last chapter or on an entirely different day. Some kind of indicator to what day it was or how much time had passed (even just a "The next day...") would have helped me a lot. As it is, the timeline felt very rushed.
- I didn't really find either of the romantic interests very believable. I think this is mostly because of how plot heavy the book was that took away from character driven moments, so I didn't get a good feel for either of them.
- I would have liked to have spent more time in the battle sequence to build up more tension. Maybe even seeing preparations for battle that geared up the reader to it instead of just "BAM, armies at the ready to battle it out." I didn't even think a real battle was going to happen in this book until it was upon me, so it threw me for a loop. 

Overall, this book was a decent read in that it kept my attention for part of it, but I struggled to read through parts of it, too. I always want to commend anyone who spends so much time and effort in writing a novel, especially a fantasy novel. I definitely think that Jamye has really great potential for future fantasy endeavors because of how interesting the various plot points were, but this book just fell flat for me.