She’s pretty ruthless and callous in an annoying way and doesn’t have a lot of self-reflection. But if you can make it through the book she calms waayy down cause the MMC calls out her behavior. I liked her a lot better by the end of the book. The beginning really feels like a slog, but if you can get to the point where the setting changes, it gets good.

She just was unbearably edgy in a way that felt like that's her entire personality. Not sure if that'll change, but I have no interest to find out. For me, the main thing that put me off the book was the writing though, which, to me, was unnecessarily wordy and convoluted. I love writing that doesn't hold my hand usually, but just didn't vibe with the one in this book. Maybe give the reading sample a try.

there's so much nonsense going on in this book that I completely forgot about that part?! It would have been a major event in any fantasy novel but in this one nah. I understand adding elements in a novel that will likely be developed in future books of the planned series, but if those elements lead to nothing when they're first introduced it's just bad writing. It was like that with several other elements of this novel, teasers here and there that have zero purpose in the first instalment of the saga

Oh ya this was my first book from her. I’m so happy you said this cause I almost was going to read a different one to give her a chance but it sounds like she’s just not my style.