This book was really hard for me to push through. The 2 main characters were well developed and the spice was spicy but the rest of the story was just a slog to get through for me. I haven't read the Wicked series but maybe if I had I would have been able to understand all the different courts and beings and how they all related better. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood to read this book at the time but I really had to push myself to get through this book. I wanted to know how it ended but with about 250 pages left I was just like okay can I read a summary of the end and just be done? I finished it but it took me really having to force myself to finish. This should have been read in 2 days but took me 4 because I just couldn't get engaged with it fully.