NOWHERE near as good as Kingdom of the Wicked in my opinion. This was supposed to be a step up as her first true adult novel. Other than the s*x scenes being slightly more explicit… there was nothing adult about the content of this book. The plot was poorly constructed. The characters seemed very surface level. The story expanded the world we learned about in the KOTW series in the most unoriginal way. It felt like she saw Romantasy was getting more popular and decided to go down the ACOTAR route when the world she had already written was unique and fun to read about. Some of the names of people, places, and things seemed like placeholders from her first draft she forgot to replace. The land where the Fae live is called Fairie. I shit you not. And that’s just one example. I couldn’t take it seriously. There were a few twists I did appreciate but even the way those were revealed was lackluster. I would probably only read the next book if I was incredibly bored and had nothing else to read. So… not likely.