I really struggled to choose whether to give it a 2.75 star or a 3 star. 

It’s a beauty and the beast retelling, with magic, sorcerers and poorly organised rebellion.

Reasons I didn’t love the book/problems I had with it:
- I normally never complain about poor character development/portrayal of character, but these characters were SOO wishy washy. The FMC wanted to be so badass, and for like one moment she was portrayed like a warrior Princess, and then the other she was just wingy. 
- Some of the side characters were cool
- the overall premise was a good idea, I just wish it had been more flushed out/had actual depth
- there was little worldbuilding, but enough that you got the overall gist 
- random introduction of things
- the mmc needs to get a tad bit of a grip
- THE LINE OF “would you forgive me for all the war crimes” HOMIE WHY DONT YOU GET A BACKBONE AND BE LIKE I NEED TO REPENT OR SOMETHING DEAR LORD

Reasons I did like the book:
- the banter was pretty good
- ignoring everything else, the relationship between the two was good at some points 
- the premise was good 
- the conclusion wrapped things up pretty well
- she could sound pretty badass
- the mmc realising he’s an idiot

Also, everytime I started to enjoy the book/ the FMC started to be likeable, something stupid plot wise happened.