This is another book I thought was going to be a five-star prediction in 2024 that flopped for me. I adore world-building but the world-building in this? This was so convoluted. Most of the world-building was about wool and I kept hoping to hear more about the world that wasn’t about that. The romance left me feeling meh but that’s probably because I prefer my romances to be less about the sexual aspect and more about actually falling in love with the person which there was barely any of. I didn’t believe that Matti and Luca were in love or that they should’ve been together. The characters had their skeletons but they didn’t have their organs. They needed to be worked on more than they were. The entire book did honestly. 

The mystery surrounding Luca was a giant let down as well. There was quite a few quote-able moments the one currently in my mind is about turning a scene in the last chapter into epic poems but I’m going to be honest in saying said quote felt wasted in this book. 
 
I thought about dnf’ing this multiple times but I decided to power through it to mark off a r/fantasy bingo square. Hopefully, A Marvellous Light is better since I’ve seen that this was Freya’s first book and that it just got published later on.