Ratings1,688
Average rating4
Look, I'll start this review by saying this book wasn't for me. It got picked by my SFF book club, but it's definitely a romance book with a fantasy setting. The setting itself is essentially just Pern meets the Hunger Games, but mostly just the parts of each of those that are most nonsensical and problematic. A military school where there's a focus on killing off the weak at home instead of sending them to die at the front lines and classmate murder is essentially encouraged? Why?
The whole thing reads like bad self-insert fanfic down to the main character with magical color changing hair and eyes. Also it's over 500 pages which is just ridiculous for how little story there is. I never go lower than 3 stars unless something is morally offensive to me, but ooh this one was not my cuppa at all.