(I received a free eARC from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.)

Maybe 2.5 stars, I don’t know.

I liked the premise and for the most part the characters, but the execution didn’t work for me — too many important parts happening offstage (for the first half of the book I felt like I was behind or had mistakenly picked up a sequel without reading the original), too much going on in each of the two main storylines, too many details that had to be remembered to make sense of various plot developments or at least the dialogue. Honestly, it kind of made my brain hurt, and not entirely in a good way.