Karen

I dnf'd this book. Not necessarily because it's bad; but because it read like it was simply a written version of someone's DnD campaign. Which is perfectly fine for those who like that style, but it was overly simplistic for me, and after the first couple of chapters I wasn't at all engaged.

I'm not giving a star rating, because I don't think it's a BAD book, it's just not a book for me.

I tried, I really did. But it was just too over the top.

Didn't finish.

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Nope, nope, nope. I loved A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske and was hoping this would be similar. But the one character immediately starts being sexually aggressive towards the other in a very rapey way. And then the second character is like ‘well, if everyone thinks we're having sex, I guess you might as well just have me, so do it' and he doesn't act at ALL like he wants it, like he's interested, just “might as well” and it's not an act he PARTICIPATES in, it's a thing that is done TO him. Shades of rape. I couldn't make it past that scene. Maybe it gets better? Maybe it turns into a healthy relationship? But I'm not going to make it that far.