Thank you to NetGalley and Titan Books for an eARC in exchange for an honest review

I saw some fantastic reviews for this before I even picked it up and it did not disappoint. This is a sweeping fantasy that manages to establish a whole world of empires, governments, monarchies, and complex families just within the first 100 pages. I would expect this rate of worldbuilding to leave me a little bemused and following along hoping it all made sense later, but with this book I was entirely gripped and doing my best to follow each detail to see how they would play out. And truly I never guessed correctly where the plot would go next.
Who was I supposed to be rooting for? Is this a romance? Are they betraying each other? I spent a wonderful few days completely immersed in this world and I'm already eager for Book 2 of the trilogy.
A vicious, violent book that I thoroughly enjoyed