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The Use of Myriad Arts by Wendy Palmer
3.5
adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Holy COW.
So it feels like one of the themes of Palmer's books is "what kind of trauma would have had to have happened to the average romance character to make them make such consistently terrible choices?" and then...that's the story.
There is a LOT going on in this story, the plot is extremely wild, the characters are interesting, but not entirely well developed, although some of that is, in fact, plot related. But it was such an enjoyable ride.
Also I very much appreciated having a heavily pregnant protagonist where that is something she needs to account for, but not necessarily something that completely restricts her. One understands the brain fog, given that situation.