When this book started, I was a little bit concerned I was not going to end up liking it. I was worried that there would be some very tropey similarities to other books I had read. Thankfully though this book teases at those tropes and then takes a complete left turn from what I was expecting. The land and folklore were so rich and interesting as well. What really pulled me in though was main protagonist Soraya. She was everything I wanted in a protagonist for a story like this.

My only issue I had is that I felt the feelings towards other characters happened a bit suddenly, especially one character in particular.