2.5 rounded up

This was tough to rate because the first third of it I liked quite a lot. It wasn’t what I expected at all and was very interesting and did some cool worldbuilding.

But then, once the excitement has settled, it’s back to a brand new love story I truly did not care about. Liked the new character, who I already knew from Six of Crows duology and King of Scars, and why I’m finishing this series despite being the least interesting instalment of the Grishaverse. This was long enough that my review would have been two stars, but for the last 2 chapters or so, when shit starts going again.

I don’t know where things would go from here, it’s genuinely an interesting question to me, so I bumped up my rating. I really don’t like that it basically used the same cycle from the first book... but also admit I want to know how it ends, especially given that I know some of it from reading other series that continually piqued my interest as to what happened.