This was one of my backlist eARCs for NetGalley (which I have slowly but surely been working through in an attempt to get to the blessed 100% ratio on NG by year-end). I chose to read it now because I saw that the audiobook was on Everand which felt like a great way to consume it and knock another book off my rather intimidating TBR list.

Whilst I don’t this book is inherently bad, it also didn’t really hit for me. This book felt almost painfully generic and like it was written with a tickbox of all of the common, popular tropes of YA fantasy books. I think the ideal audience for this book is a reader who is maybe just discovering YA fantasy and are eager to read more but don’t know what to pick up. This being said, I can also see this book being something that readers who have read a lot of the genre would eat up. I guess what I am saying is that it didn’t work for me but for somewhat subjective reasons 😅 I definitely think it was a well-written and plotted book, I simply didn’t vibe with it.