Seeing a bit of a cute romance in this series was really refreshing!! I feel like it’s all so dark I feel bad to the characters :( I just finished glass sword, so I have quite a while to go yet however I really did find myself longing for more of a backstory on characters like Julian and Sara while reading. 

This novella quenched some of my thirst for wider backstory. However it was so sad idk if i would’ve been better off not reading it at all lmao. 
She was really just a young girl caught up in a mess of a society she didn’t belong in and she slowly cracked under pressure. Glad her story was written tho bc it really gives depth to some characters were the series doesn’t.