4.5 stars.

A fantastic sci-fi with twists and turns, I loved it so much. Andra is a relatable and interesting character, I really enjoyed her growth throughout the book. The worldbuilding is fantastic and I adored all the little clues that were thrown out along the way. But most of all I adored the ending, it's not often I don't see something coming, but I did not see how that was going to play out until the final few pages where I was like wait... is it...could it be..... whattttt?! And I loved that. I cannot wait for the sequel - it's going to be a wild ride.

The only reason this doesn't get the full 5 stars is that I found the way the 'High Goddess' language is spoken, doesn't flow well. Or at least not in my mind. But that probably has nothing to do with the writing and purely to do with how my brain works, whereby I need to understand the accent/linguistics for a flow to appear to me. And the best I could do to obtain that was to imagine if the Texan and Glasweigan accents had had a weird linguistic love child and produced the slang.

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