This book has good parts and bad parts but one of the bad parts is the pacing is all over the place.  Parts of the novel just drag into long explanations and repetitive scenes where nothing is accomplished and then a whole bunch of shit happens in the last 10% of the book that has nothing to do with anything that happened previously. 

If I was not reading this book as part of a book club challenge it would likely have been a DNF as it got so boring and dragged on for seemingly no reason at certain parts. 

3⭐ is a below average read for me.  It would have been lower if it were not for some wonderful aspects. 

First the bad:  

Saeris, the FMC, is one of the most insufferable lead characters of all time.   She has a huge ego for mostly being too stupid to live in most of her interactions with just about every other character.  We get she hates dresses and she thinks she took great care of her brother even though she is barely 2 yrs older and he seems to have flourished while not under her care.  She is well liked and special to everyone she meets although it's difficult to see why.  

Her changes in attitude just occur immediately without any basis.  First she hates Kingfisher than she loves him.  I have a lot of issues with slow burn stories that go from 0 to 100 after 100s of pages of trying to deny there is a physical attraction.  So i think it's a good thing when the couple acts on attraction before they have decided they are meant for each other.   That's real life. 
But here she is hate hate hate can't live without you.  

another bad thing is the pacing as I said before.  There is a lot of "telling" not showing.  The author is trying to create some backstory with her characters and we end up with pages and pages of exposition.  The character Lorreth is given a long story that is detailed and not essential to the plot.  The last bit of the book is such a Deus ex Machina that it needs to be explained and pretty much narrated in order to shoehorn several key points to the novel.  
There is an entire mean girl storyline that is completely unnecessary.  
I actually didn't mind the MMC Kingfisher.  He started off a bit controlling with a touch of martyrdom syndrome .  But he kind of grows on the reader.  Its never clear what he finds so appealing about Saeris although it is made clear in the last 2% of the novel. 

The writing style is not bad but the author still suffers from the one word sentence issue.  Its boring. Repetitive. Amateurish. 

The saving grace in all this are her side characters ESPECIALLY Carrion Swift.   He has the best lines and is such a fun character that brightens every scene he's in.  
In an ideal world this would be a reverse harem with Carrion as the swashbuckling rogue character leading the other leading men - Kingfisher the grumpy dominant one,  Lorreth the poet dreamer, Hayden the Golden Retriever and Taladeius the suave vampire with Onyx the fox - on a multiple realm adventure to find a FMC worthy of their style and grace.  And save the world as they go.  The redheaded witch would fit as a FMC

But, unfortunately this is not the novel we got.   

Rumour has it the the next book will have Kingfisher and Carrion adventuring together and if that is the case I might be convinced to read it. 

I wish this novel was just a bit better.