Emily Lloyd-Jones is one of my favorite fantasy writers, their writing style and their characters are just the best and I love how so far all of their novels have been connected by little lore drops in each one. Part of the reason I love them so much is probably because Moira Quirk narrates the audiobooks, and she's my absolute favorite narrator. I did really enjoy this, the hunt was a cool fantasy hunger games setup and the trio of characters we follow were love-able yet complex. 

Mild Spoilers to explain why it's not a 5 star:

I had an idea of how the plot might resolve and I think that made what actually happened harder to accept. As I think was intentioned, the way things did end up going was a bummer. I wish I had been able to finish the book feeling a little better. Instead, the whole last hour or so of my read I was stressed from being in traffic and this book only made me feel worse. It's a good thing when a book can affect you, great job to the author of making me care, but I ended the book feeling unsatisfied and I can't give that a 5 star rating.