...*SIGH*

Gods I tried to like this one. Perfectly fine, great concept, just sunk down with a lot of messy and overly-complicated worldbuilding, thin characters, and a plot that, while thrilling in parts, is a bit too tangled to really shine. I really enjoyed Bracken's Passenger duology which gave its pair of protagonists time to breathe and work inside a spacious plot, so it's a shame this felt too overstuffed and underdeveloped for a single book.