Buddy read with the dear Massiel!!

I’m honestly not sure what to think. On one hand, this book had lovely writing and imagery, and I’m sure the author is a very talented writer. On the other.... I just really couldn’t connect to these characters. Or the romance. Or the storyline at all.

This started off well, it really did. I loved the idea of a girl with poison in her veins, which is why I kind of hated it when

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she easily destroyed the fire and removed the poison from her body. It basically made her super boring to me.

. Our MC just got really boring and pretty annoying after the previously mentioned situation, and I hated how dumb she was - and I don’t mean academically, I mean common sense wise. I mean, it was so obvious that the evil dude was, well, evil! He was totally sus and I didn’t love it.

I also didn’t really feel any chemistry between either of the couples. I liked that Soraya was bi, but her and Parvaneh were just kind of boring together, and I felt nothing.

All up, this was pretty disappointing, but I still love the cover and the Persian mythology and fairytale-like writing technique! Thank you to my girl Massiel for BR-ing this with me, and to the angel Ash for sending the book to me