I just don’t know about this book. Is it beautifully written? Yes. Magical world building? Also yes. But it’s also a typical in-between book with an awful lot of nothings happening, from beginning to end. Add to that the transactional/borderline non-consensual sex where the MC can’t help but climax with a brute she is held captive by, it just sat really uncomfortably with me. I wish I’d skipped this book and gone straight to the third (yet to be released!).