Scepter of Blood: Kuss der dunkelsten Nacht

Overall, quite an entertaining read without overcomplicated plot, but rather known tropes and little surprise of the outcome.
The FMC felt a little too much like a pick me girl and I could not see lots of character development (just of her abilities and generally learning about... life, I guess - exposition for us readers) and the MMC was a cookie-cutter handsome brooding and supposedly grey character. I wasn't really expecting too different.
Now to the things that still irk me:
The first chapter really is like Hunger Games: a girl in the woods hunting to provide food for her family, taking place on a sort of choosing ceremony day to appease a frivolous ruling class, girl worrying about a sibling to be chosen for certain death - only to the herself end up as the chosen one.
The title is “scepter of blood” - why is there a crown on the cover? (Mild spoiler, the title fits the plot, the cover doesn't)
What on earth is up with the graphic representation of names?! German (original language of the book) is already equipped with funny graphemes ä, ö, ü and we theoretically know of other diacritic marks, e.g. in French and Portuguese. But this book mashes all diacritics of multiple languages together and then some. Without providing a pronunciation guide. Think along the lines of “Reighfyl” and you have the gist of this book's naming.