thank you to netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a free audiobook in exchange for an honest review! this has not affected my review in any way, all opinions are mine.

3/5

i gotta be real with you i wanted to like this book more so so bad and i really did like a lot of it, but the ending felt so unfinished. i love a standalone, but i felt like it needed another chapter. an epilogue. something to wrap things up. i felt like character arcs and relationships were just left unfinished and it was really unsatisfying in a way where i was trying to see if there was meant to be a sequel. i love a standalone fantasy but this didn't feel complete? i did enjoy the characters and where i thought things were headed, but then instead of wrapping up it just ended and i was like .......oh

the ideas and concepts were so strong and i was really interested in the worldbuilding, but my main takeaway from the book ends up just being a sense of disappointment which is sad