Y'all I did not know why I was getting into when I signed up for this book. Was it amazing? Yes! But let's just say that there is a trigger warning in the beginning of the book for a very good reason! I swear I was barely a fourth of the way through the book and I'd already read about five different panic attacks that One singular character had had. And they were almost unnecessarily accurate descriptions. As someone who experiences similar shutdowns there are a couple of times that I had to just mentally take a break from this book.

Also it was weirdly sexual at the weirdest times. Like there's no spice in this book, like there's a mentions of things happening but no explicit detail. But you only realize that in hindsight, cuz these characters are horny at the absolute worst times. Like I don't even know what else to say about that it was just very weird.

Also there's like seven different plot lines that are all happening at once. You have a deal with a demon and trying to break out of it, you have a murder mystery, you have a trial to win the hand of the princess, you have centuries of oppression that are building back up again, you have secrets and lies about history coming to light. This is not a long book but there is so much happening all at once that it's a lot to take in!

Also be aware that there is a particular character that you will fall in love with immediately and they will break your heart. There is no avoiding it, they are simply too pure and too perfect for this world and thus you should have known already that you were signed up for pain. Nobody warned me so I'm warning you now.

The magic system, and their whole religion system is extremely complicated and I'm not entirely sure I still understand it. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out now that everything has come to light. It'll also be interesting to see how everything resolves between the main characters. Because I definitely did not expect it to end like that, so we'll see how it goes

Also that was somehow the most anticlimactic way to defeat a villain, while also being the most dramatic way to defeat a villain that I have ever seen! Like boy just really said "b**** I had a scared of the literal demon you should see the inside of my head!" Like weird flex but it worked so okay?

Everything about this read was bizarre in a way that was exactly what I wanted! I am so excited to see where it's going to go from here!