DNF @ 20%

Got the book on KU after reading the Facebook add and it seemed like something I'd enjoy on my holidays. Had no idea that it was a spin off of a previous series when I started reading but figured it out pretty quickly when whole chunks of the story seemed missed or skipped over. Felt completely lost while reading this and just couldn't focus on the story as I was constantly feeling I'd missed something. Came on here and realised there's a whole series I should have read before this, where all these characters were introduced and the flashback events happened. I find this really frustrating, so I've given up for now. Shame, because I probably would enjoy this series, but I feel if you're going to write a spin off that it so closely tied to previous story lines and characters, then it's probably a good idea to make readers aware they should read in order.

I might give the Phoenix series a go and come back to this, but I'm annoyed I wasted some precious downtime on this so for now I'm going to find something else.