This book is about an aro ace prince in a world where young royals have to find a future spouse by rescuing another royal or being said rescuee. The premise was not super realistic, but I still found it pretty interesting. Unfortunately, I ended up thinking that the author could have gone a bit further with it than they did.

Even though Gerald tried to dismantle the system do to its amatonormativity and cruelty to magical creatures, in the end, amatonormativity is brought straight back into the new system, due to the focus still being on everyone needing to find a partner. Although I found Gerald's queer platonic relationship nice, I really think this book could have benefited from having at least one aromantic character who is not interested in having any kind of partner, who would be able to challenge the system more than Gerald could.

I also feel like the pacing lagged, especially in the second part of the book.