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So… Ever since this book was put on my radar, I was intrigued by it and after the first few chapters it seems like I would enjoy it quite a lot.
I mean, the premise lets us to believe that we‘ll follow this badass empress who ventures out to seek revenge on a god. What‘s not to be excited about?

Full disclosure: I was not aware that this is a second book in a companion novel series, but it can absolutely be read as a stand-alone. I only found out when I added it to GR after already having read about 25% without any problems.
So comprehension was definitely not a factor when DNFing it.

Sadly, my biggest issue was our main character. I have no problems with unlikeable characters, but as much as Eda is narcissistic and short tempered, she is also extremely dumb and flimsy. She is literally told what to do multiple times (although the reader is made to believe it‘s some big riddle… it ain’t) and she is still whining „I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO“
Not to mention, I don’t even know WHY she wanted to be empress so badly in the first place. It‘s never explained or mentioned. As a character, she feels almost 2 dimensional, with no depth, like the writer didn’t think past „make her the bad guy somehow“

When we then get a plot twist that I could see from miles away, I was done. And we haven’t even gotten to the revenge part yet.

PS: The flowery writing did not help, either.