This book is not the perfectly crafted masterpiece many people have told me it is, but it is a really good book, if you can forgive its plotholes.
Here are some thoughts:

- not enough dragons (I was promised a book about dragons but we got very little of them compared to what I expected. Their descriptions were also kinda lacking)

- Kit’s death was pointless. Kit as a character was pointless (we didn't care for him, had barely seen anything of him, and thus it didn't mean anything when he died. while on that, I think we should've had more deaths, deaths that mattered, in the book. There was a war, but all our main characters and their loved ones survived)

- some things were a little too convinient for the plot, and things, many times, felt way too easy. Everyone trusts everyone too quickly and is always willing to help. Nations that were enemies for centuries suddenly united, and all it took were some words.

- Loth and Niclays’ povs were useless in my opinion, we could’ve done without them. They felt like they dragged the story to me, and I often felt bored reading them. We could've aquired the little information they provided us by other means, and it would've made the story more interesting and like it took more to achieve goals. Instead, Tané coul've had a more active role in the narrative. Her and Ead felt like the only necessary povs to me.

BUT, despite all of that, I'm still giving this book 5 stars, as it brought me great joy while I was reading. Once I started reading it, it was addictive. I loved both Ead, Tané and Sabran deeply, and they felt like completed characters to me, different from others. I'm eager to read the other book the author has published in this universe.