I am unsure of what to even say about this book. As interesting as the synopsis is, I found my self incredibly bored by this story and largely confused at certain fantasy elements that seemed to come out of nowhere and be so whimsical that I was then distracted from everything else.

Brie was a fun main character and her predicament was one that was very... interesting. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. But the longer the book went on and the plot developed, I found myself not particularly attentive to much of what was going on. There were SO many character introduced early on (which may be easier to manage if you read book one first, which I did not since they are not advertised as needing to be read in order). There were so many different types of fantastical creatures in play, many of them with multiple terms to describe them by, and this was hard to follow.

Overall, I was underwhelmed by this and will not be reading any of the others. If this book was any longer, I probably would have dnfed.

Thank you to Orbit Books for access to this title. My review is completely voluntary, completely my own, and always completely honest.