I honestly really struggled through this. Idk if it's the whole trope of "we're finally together but something happened and we hate each other and have to find love again" which is really not my favorite. But I actually mainly had a hard time following the fantasy plot here. I think I find the worldbuilding to generally be a bit hard to follow. I can't really keep track of who's side I should be on. 
There's something to be said for Oraya's reckoning with her father and who he was to her in her memory vs who he actually was and what he was doing behind her back. I think the complexity there was done well.

I'm invested enough in the series to continue as I did like the first book and novella, so we'll see where it goes...