Dan

4.5/5 stars

Awesome book from cover to finish.
It is almost worth it to suffer through the first book.
The only complaint I would have is that the 2 Yirella endings contradict each other and ends on a semi-cliffhanger.
I hope Mr. Hamilton picks up that thread some day.

Horrible execution of a good idea.

This is a weird one. I did not dislike the book itself but I dislike the message the author tries to impart on the reader. Like, 'we should hit our children more so they do not turn criminal' and the anti democratic message as a whole. Dude is cringe AF but the story itself, for what it was, was not bad.

This is like the dark version of cozy fantasy. Super low stakes, no story just pain ans suffering for 400 pages. This reads more like a dark fairy tale, with fairy tale logic, unfortunately there is no plot. If this had some plot, some stakes, this would be 4+ stars. Looking forward to book 2 though.

This was everything I wanted the first book to be. Awesome, can't wait for Book 3.