I’m not even going to lie to you, I was really worried that this book was going to only be 3 stars for me. It started off slow but not in the usual info dumping way that most books start out slow”. It was more so that I was actually getting frustrated with just how long it took to get a thought out.

For example, there’s a line that says how she stepped out of her crimson-and-black dress, meanwhile it could have just said dress, with no descriptors — the entire chapter before it was literally ABOUT the damn dress and how that colour meant something specifically and yadda yadda (I don’t want to spoil anything). This happens quite frequently where you’re just like GET ON WITH IT.

Honestly, that almost lost some stars but there was REDEMPTION in the trials. They were done so well and the outcome was not what I expected.

The ending though? HOW DARE YOU GIVE ME AN ARC OF THIS BOOK AND THEN END IT LIKE THAT?! What if I don’t get the next ARC? What if I have to wait FOREVER for the next book? Please DO NOT do that to me