This is a really cool book and yet, it took me a long time to get through it, because I just didn't pick it up. Why?

What I liked
- The characters - they are diverse, interesting and flawed.
- The worldbuilding - a lot of interesting ideas done well.
- The story - it's not as action-packet, but more introspect and develops slowly, but I found this was done very well and I liked it.
- James Fouhey as audiobook speaker - he's the only one I've heard so far who can read the dialogue of women without me finding it cringy. People should hire him more often.

All in all, this book should have been right up my alley.

I think what put me off a bit was something that is not the book's fault but the marketing's and my personal preference: Despite Kenna's journey being super interesting, there was a bit too much teenage angst and whining for me, combined with instalove and a lot of descriptions of how great the love interest is. On top of it, everything was very on the nose, every lession was spelled out. 
All of this makes me think this is more of a middle grade or YA book, which I just don't generally go for. In fact, I chose this book, despite its teenage protagonist, especially because it is advertised as "adult".

So I just expected something different from what I got. But I do think it is a good YA book and maybe people who like YA a lot more than I do will enjoy this.

I did like the ending a lot, though.

Not everything worked out magically by the end of the story and Kenna actually had to work for his happy end.