I almost DNFed this , but I'm so glad I didn't. I was very torn between being able to continue reading when Una had Abertha "help" her in the blackberry bramble. I think I speed read the next bit until I had reassurances that there was a path forward. Once I got that, I really started to love this book. Then, the characters started to live in my head.

I do hate the "damaged" FMC trope for books. However, I really enjoyed so much else about this book and this world that it was easy to move past my distain for that particular character type. At least his dick didn't magically fix her leg. That would have been the end of it for me.