3.5 stars

The first half of this book was as so many people say: a complete snooze, boring even though there are things going on, not much to it. It was beautiful and atmospheric, the setting was gorgeous, I liked the characters, and the plot seemed to be interesting enough. But for some reason I still couldn't get into it. I actually ended up putting it down for about 4 months without any immediate plans to return to it. It wasn't a DNF, but I definitely didn't want to be reading it at the time.

Then I don't know what happened, but 2 nights ago I randomly decided to pick it back up and read a couple pages to see how I felt, and I ended up falling completely in love? In all honesty, I think it's almost entirely because it takes place in Montenegro and I'm planning on going there soon, so I couldn't get enough of it because of the setting. But even so, the plot was all of a sudden really interesting to me as well and I actually ended up really enjoying it. I'll definitely be reading the second book (not any time soon most likely, but I'll still read it eventually).