“Perhaps everything he’s said to me— that he’s beneath me, that I don’t respect him— maybe he he actually believes that””

WELL WHY WOULDNT HE?!?!? You have given NO argument to the contrary!! 



I’m gonna get this out of the way. The setting was the best part and the Romance was the worse.

The love triangle (?) was so unbelievably forced. She does not like either of these people and at no point is there an actual reason for that opinion to change. If you wanted to run this as an enemies to lovers having them kiss in the first book the way the do was the WRONG way to do it! 

The setting is beautiful. The world has so much potential (even if the world building is a little heavy handed at times). We just had the misfortune of seeing it through the eyes of petulant children! Like why is the ACTUAL child, the 15 year old girl the ONLY ONE with real class consciousness and an understanding that other people live different lives than she does?!?! 

Honestly I think the story would have been so much better if it was told from the older brother’s perspective. What he is doing is a trilogy on it own!! You have to do a lot to make your main character feel superfluous to the story. 

Imma give the next book 50-75 pages to change my mind but unfortunately I'm probably going to DNF this series.