I picked this book up for r/fantasy bingo challenge, but it's not worth forcing myself to finish it since I'm just not vibing with it.
There are a lot of degrading thoughts of the main character about their body that just made my reading experience with this book challenging. At moments I found them more disturbing than the graphic gory scenes, which definitely was the point but I just personally didn't enjoy reading about it.

I did not care for these characters whatsoever. Not even a little bit. And I really wasn't kept at the edge of my seat with the suspense so I basically had nothing to read it for. 
It sucks since it's such a short read and I love fast-paced thrillers but nothing worked for me in the 30% that I read.

I just don't think I'm in the right head space for this type of story currently. I will try it at another time.

I could not care about anything so far in the book. I struggled with this authors works before but I read the other entries in this series and liked them, so I decided to give this one a shot. It's the exact same problem that I had with the Kate Daniels series - the info dumps just pull me out of the story so much.
I loved the Hidden legacy series, but that one is not secondary world fantasy which seems to be the disconnect with me and their books. If I read it at another time other then behind an incredible 5 star science fiction book maybe I could have enjoyed it more.

 Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. 

 DNF @ 40%
I really did give this book a fair shot. It's been on my 'currently reading' over three months but I was just unable to finish it. My main issue with the book is that even though I enjoyed while I was reading it, the moment I put it down I had no desire to keep reading. I felt like the plot has not progressed from the start of the book. I just didn't know where we were supposed to be progressing to, what was the end goal. Characters were interesting but I just couldn't get attached to them. The relationship of the two main characters is already developed prior to the start of the book, and I think that I never fully bought into it.
I wasn't attached to the characters, I don't know what the plot is, or where the characters are supposed to end up or what the end goal was. And the thing that would probably get more explored by the end of the book, but I just could not stop from affecting my enjoyment is that there is basically no fantasy or magic system mentioned so far in the book. So, I didn't care for the characters, plot or the magic system. There was nothing to hold my interest anymore.

Reasons why you might like this book:
If you are the big fan of politics and maneuvering at court;
If you want minimal/low fantasy setting, this one is for you;
If you like stories with slow moving plots this book might just be for you.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. 

I thought I could read this book a year after the first one but it turns out that I can't. I couldn't connect with the characters or the plot. Maybe some time later I could reread the first book and try again, but right now there are other books that I'm more excited to read.