I wanted a book that would be fast pace and have a bit more emphasis on romance as a break in between The Broken Earth trilogy and I thought this would be perfect, but it was not. Just 5 short chapters in and everything is all set up for what I assume is an enemies to lovers thing which I'm fine with except that I feel like I have zero grasp on the setting or the characters and I don't care enough about them to wait it out. Felt like there was a lot of tell and no show.