loved the relationship and banter between the main couple. the writing was also quite good, but it was very repetitive. the author needs to trust the readers more to remember previous information. I also think I'm getting too old for young adult novels. the magic system already reminded me of star wars (because sw was inspired by asian culture ik) and then

the whole falling to dark side thing happened with Zen, and then he literally quoted Anakin 😭

. that isn't a bad thing tho, I love star wars