I love this series so much. The artwork is beautiful and the characters are just all so much fun to read and see their expressions. This volume really focuses on The Garden Banquet where all the consorts must attend so you know it will be filled with tension and drama.

The banquet really shows off the different consorts and their ladies-in-waiting. We get to see the dynamics of each palace and how they interact with one another, something that I always love to see with stories set in courts or political settings. As the volume does follow more or less one story over multiple chapters we get to see a longer mystery play out which I really enjoyed.

I cannot wait for the next volume it is fast becoming my favourite.