If I asked you to imagine a fantasy novel written in universe inspired by France circa-1800, where the magic system was semi-religious, with at least a two god pantheon representing at minimum a male-divine and a female divine and the associated religious bureaucracy, the monarchy still existed, and the force itself was the power of death, what would you imagine? How would people act? Or speak? What would life be like? If you answered, well, there'd be a lot of conspicuous homosexuality and everybody would talk like an American teenager in 2020, here's your book!

Seriously though-- the author's bio says that she's been writing since she was old enough to hold a pencil and eventually realized that if it entertained her, it would entertain others. That's a lovely thought. I agree. What she's published, however, is a work that written for Hannah and her friends and has not been edited to flesh out all those parts of story the rest of us don't know because we're were born in the 1900s and simply do not have the background nor the information that will allow us to make reasonable assumptions. The novel reads like something she wrote for her in-group (lucky) and Orbit snatched it up for mass production. Good for her. There remains a divide, however, and I don't have the energy to attempt to bridge it when it's something she and her editor should have done.