This book was absolutely terrible. It's a rare case when I have nothing good I can find to say about a book, but here we are. . . I was so disappointed. Understand that I absolutely loved the first part of this series - the first trilogy/3 books. I was then so excited to learn there was another trilogy/second part to this series. Then the author took everything I enjoyed, including the potential bits of promise in terms of interesting characters and plots in the second part, and just ruined it bit by bit. Not just in terms of plots, but in relation to characters as well. By this book, it was the worst though. A culmination of everything terrible. When I saw where it was going as far as story and plot I just gave up; stopped with like 20-30 pages to spare or something. I just couldn't take it anymore how much this second part turned the series to trash. If I honestly didn't love the art of these books so much I'd get rid of the copies I own of the second half of this series. Anyways, after this happened I vowed never to read another book by this author again, and reviews of other books by them reassure me that it was the smart choice.

*Note: This was received as an arc through Netgalley. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own

Honestly, I DNFed this book at like 14% and that was a bummer as I really wanted to enjoy it. The alternative-historical setting is fascinating and fun, there's already a number of interesting characters I wanted to know better, and the story did start flowing pretty decently at a certain point. It's just that the copy I received was an unedited arc, and I was struggling a lot with the writing early on and wasn't sure if it was just the way the author wrote or related to it being unedited. I powered through a bit though as the story started to just flow for me which was promising so I thought maybe we were over the hurdle. Until we come to a time jump and learn that the main character has a made a choice that left me feeling deeply, deeeply uncomfortable. And I just felt like it's not a decision the main character would make especially as another character that was important to her would not have approved. And that was where I decided to DNF. Perhaps, in future I'll give this book another shot, but for the time being I just. . . I'm not interested in finishing it.