I received an Advanced Readers Copy from NetGalley and all opinions are my own.

I really wanted to love this book. I have been seeing glowing reviews all of Bookstagram and it looked amazing but sadly it was not for me.

I love the world and thought the magic and everything was so cool and was really well developed. I found it was hard to follow and seemed to jump around quite a bit to the point that I didn't know what was happening though.

I found the main character really annoying with how they went back and forth from 'I am the lost ruler and I know all these cool things' to 'oops while trying to pretend to be a normal person and remembering to change my accent I forgot this is a language nobody in hundreds of years has read aloud infront of my enemy' I understand that they are human and a teen so they will make mistakes but still. 

I'm rating it 3 stars because everything else about the book was amazing just the main character was annoying and despite my best efforts it was really confusing to follow.

For these reasons I thought it best to cut my losses and DNF at 48% rather than struggle through it and make me lose all interest in enjoying it another day.