Maybe more like 3.5, just given some Things and also the fact that it took me a long time to finish because I was reading it at night and sometimes would just fall asleep instead (the latter is totally my fault!) The worldbuilding on this was really compelling, but also pretty confusing at first--it took me a long stretch to really get into it. I would say this book benefits most from sitting down with it for long stretches--it flows really well when you read it that way, and it's easy to get caught up in once you let that happen.

Sometimes it does suffer from certain Fantasy Tropes (Lila escapes a rape attempt, for example, which is supposed to Tell Us About Her Character) but much like other Fantasy books, that doesn't mean I wasn't sucked in by the end and desperate to see if they would make it! That being said, I'm not sure I feel SUPER compelled to keep reading the series--the ending felt pretty neatly tied up honestly? But we'll see.