Wow. I have very little to say about this book that is good. I think the only thing I actually liked was the conflict between the people of San Irie and Reeve? 

Anyways, the world building felt unexplored and the plot wholly undercooked. In short, the book needed to be longer, because the author should’ve expanded on the previous war (maybe with flashbacks?) in order to make the reader connect with the very basis the story hinders on, as well as to make us understand the characters and their connection to each other. I didn’t care about Aveline, not because she didn’t have potential, but because the author should’ve exploited (for lack of a better word) her way more than she did. 

Faron also struck me as a completely unlikeable character. I don’t get why she became the Childe Empyrean, why Reeve fell for her, just why she’s so elevated. Because there was no showing why. Honestly, the only thing that the author showed was that she was dumb and ‘cared about her sister’—but didn’t even have the energy to join Reeve in the library. Yeah. Fuck her.

The representation was cool, but it can only get you so far. 

So. Yeah. This book needed much more revising and it needed to be at least a hundred pages longer, for the sake of delving into a story and relationships that were otherwise underdeveloped. The book had potential, okay?