I expected this to be a new favourite Schwab but it was really just ok! 

I’m gonna hope the translation was bad. After all, there is such a thing as being too vague for anyone to catch understanding of what is going on—even if the setting is a Fever Dream.

I find it fascinating how much American SFF uses slavery as a plot device

This felt like it talked down to its audience in a way I know I would have hated if I was 9-12 when I read it. It’s a shame, the concept was cool. 

this is the best YA low fantasy series, actually 

Painfully slow to start but when it picks up it is absolutely golden. This is one for Locked Tomb fans and those that love sapphic pining in fantasy. 

This book was beautifully written but ultimately I felt no compulsion to keep going. Despite being over a quarter of the way in I felt very little happened and did not feel the need to find out.