I had the Owlcrate signed edition (bought used) and I wish I liked it more to justify keeping the gorgeous hardback.

The writing style I had the most issues with. While I am quite fine with 1st person POV, here it is glaringly obvious and takes me out for most of the chapters. There are many filter words "I *feel*", "I *taste*" and were big detriments. Additionally the repetitive sentence structure (Subject>Verb>the rest) had me reading in a way that I can only describe as mechanical. I found myself glossing over much of the paragraph that repeats this structure as it was so prevalent.

The story itself is fine. Nothing particularly special to my taste. It did get a bit more interesting at the end, however it ends on a big cliffhanger. I get wanting readers to pick up the next book but you can still have a satisfying mostly concluded main story with threads that can lead to the next book. Season 1 of Stranger Things is a great example of this. Here I felt another 3 chapters were missing. But due to my issues with the writing style and just serviceable plot, I will not seek out the next book in the series.