4.5 ✨️
Safe to say the last few chapters had me freaking out and obsessing reading the next book Dragon's Promise. I delayed reading this series as long as I could because knowing how EL weaves her stories (like Blood of the Stars), I know I will be in for a fantastic ride that I don't want to end - and I was right!

Started off slow for me and kinda hated Shiori as a lead because of that bratty and prissy attitude with no regards to the people around her. This carried on well up until she was carrying her curse but there was a subtle to full blown character development that made her tolerable to well-liked. The inclusion of well developed side characters helped transition Shiori into one of the most promising characters EL has ever written.

The mythopoeia of the plot which was written intricately along with the right amount of descriptives, made me hover word over word just to get into what will happen next. There were slight falters on the storytelling flow which made it boring and made me skip a few paragraphs but the unexpected twists definitely caught my attention until the end.

The nod of romantic relationship between Takkan and Shiori is so cute - with Takkan being an ideal betrothed that is (eleven yeara of pining for the princess will do that