It didn’t quite make it to five because it was REALLY ridiculous and hard to suspend my belief at times. I also felt like there were just a little too many interruptions by the narrators. 

Nevertheless I finished 2/3 in one sitting and stayed up 2 hours past my bedtime (which is 3 am at the moment anyway :D) so that must mean that I was sucked into this book. I just love the writing style (except the a bit too many interruptions) so much. 

The showdown at the end with the carriage felt quite annoying to me though.

It’s a fun quick read just not my favourite trope and as expected pretty predictable. But of course still enjoyable, I’ve read most of Kasie West’s books and I always know what to expect and it delivers :)

I liked this book well enough I just wanted a little more from it. I wanted a lot more romance and maybe more explicit scenes since this is an adult novel. And the main characters were miscommunicating almost the entire length of the novel which is a pet peeve of mine - if characters in their mid twenties don’t know how to talk to each other properly it’s just sad I don’t know. Speaking of which they both did not read like they were mid twenty but like teenagers I was bummed about that. 

To me the writing style was very hard to read for some reason making it very slow. I can’t really explain why exactly.

And lastly I felt I was dropped into politics that never truly made sense to me. The first 50 pages I was just confused and a bit annoyed. But I never felt like the political situation was explained well and the hierarchy/ treaty/ resolution business made zero sense to me. 

Trigger warning: very explicit abusive relationship references (acted out memories/ flashbacks) and a victim blaming himself