The Empress

2.75 ⭐️
I have to say the idea behind the book is what drew me in but unfortunately the execution wasn't what I had expected.

I was hoping for a well developed magic system, an empress that actually had cards in the game, and a tower that would be more magically involved than i would have imagined for a building. But instead the magic system fell short and both the empress and the tower were just symbols in a traveling multiverse kind of story.

The MMC wasn't bad perse but the childish people that surrounded her made the story feel cheap and immature. The fantasy world building wasn't bad at all but the characters motivations in that same setting felt lacking. There could have been much more of a backstory and development of the animosity. It felt like no character knew what their role exactly was, they just existed and their motivations just showed that.

Thank you to the author and Net Galley for the opportunity to review this book!