Iara

You can see the clear ‘influences' from The Lord of the Rings, but it still had enough differences and compelling characters to make for an interesting read.

I started reading this in English and had to change to Spanish after the first three chapters because it was just too hard for me to know what was happening. But, once I went into the Spanish version, everything got better. I feel like the translator made the book better, so props to them for that. The story is interesting even if there's not a lot of assassin things happening until the last 30% of the book, which was disappointing.

This whole book was meh. I found the characters bland and the plot boring. I expected more from a book so hyped, specially for its characters, than  rich snobby kids running around getting drunk and high while thinking they're the smartest people in the room. I feel like it was way too long. The very little that happens could have happened in 200 pages less. And I was also disappointed the professor wasn't in it more, just because of the blurb. Don't go in thinking he appears much because he doesn't.

I overall enjoyed the book, but some stuff wasn't needed. And with this I mean the pirates. They add nothing to the story. And I mean /nothing/. The story would have been the same without them there. Less sex scenes and romance, but that's it. They didn't need to be there. They didn't help in the resolution of the story at all. Iwish they had not been added tbh.

I also have to say, as a bisexual girl myself, that as much as I appreciated the calling out of the sexualization we suffer, I did not appreciate the backtracking on Sosie. Being hesitant to be in a relationship could have happened in any of the idk how many f/m ships in the book, but it had to be the maybe-bi character that's not sure? I would have preferred it if it had not been teased at just to be taken back.

And before someone says it, I know questioning people exist, but having the supposed to be bi character be the one hurting the lesbian because maybe they're actually straight is a Bad Trope.

Those were really my two biggest problems with the book. I do also feel like the commercial breaks were fun at first but boring as the chapters went by.

I didn't know anything about the plot when I started reading, I found it strange but obviously also incredible. I can't wait to read the second one after that ending.