In my spirit, this book is 5 stars, in my logical brain it's not perfect. Love the concept and love the author, there's a few assorted things that I think could've bumped this to 5 stars. I understand this is a YA book but I do think it could've benefitted from the characters being like 22-25 instead of 18-19. Rebecca Ross writes tension between rivals/enemies/etc so well I love it dearly. I think at times the pace was a hair too quick, somehow the story was moving just a bit too fast and not giving me all the information I wanted out of it. I think more mythology sprinkled in would've been nice considering a divine war is the large driving conflict in this story.