It took me a while to get into the book.
Main character dying of cancer in our world was tough for me.
Fantasy world was initially eye-rollingly badly written to me (each chapter begins with quotes from the "book") and it was tough to keep characters straight when they have titles like the Beauty Dipped in Blood, the Cobra, and the Last Hope in addition to names.

But once I was into the story fully (somewhere around 40%), the book became really tough to put down and I fell in love with it. I love the characters (most of them) and their growth.

I don't know what will happen in the next book or how the story will all work out, but I had great fun with this and will anxiously wait for the next.

Content warning - the author had cancer, so her descriptions of it are particularly intense.