This was excellent. I struggled at times with the story feeling a bit slow, but overall it is so well done. 

I loved the setting, it’s not one you see very often, and the characters were so interesting. The way the magic system was worked in is really cool, and in the end you’re so emotionally tied to the characters. 

The ending absolutely killed me, I cried so hard - at first because you have no how idea how they will get out of their predicament and it feels tragic and hopeless, and then because of how the ending actually goes (this makes sense once you read it).