

Giving this a one star since I gave up 150 pages in.
The author introduces a lot of characters' POVs very quickly and it felt a bit all over the place. The multiple sex scenes were just cringy to read too. The sci-fi concepts itself were cool but once the author started a sex scene with the woman “flipping back into a handstand” I was done.
Giving this a one star since I gave up 150 pages in.
The author introduces a lot of characters' POVs very quickly and it felt a bit all over the place. The multiple sex scenes were just cringy to read too. The sci-fi concepts itself were cool but once the author started a sex scene with the woman “flipping back into a handstand” I was done.

Since book 2 ended with the two getting married it kind of annoyed me that immediately we're back to square one with the romance. I didn't really want to read about all the other side plots so I mostly flicked through it. Have marked book as “abandoned”.
Since book 2 ended with the two getting married it kind of annoyed me that immediately we're back to square one with the romance. I didn't really want to read about all the other side plots so I mostly flicked through it. Have marked book as “abandoned”.

DNF at 25%. Couldn't quite get into this one. It was switching between 3 different perspectives but everything felt quite dull, I felt quite detached from all the characters and I didn't really feel like they had much personality.
DNF at 25%. Couldn't quite get into this one. It was switching between 3 different perspectives but everything felt quite dull, I felt quite detached from all the characters and I didn't really feel like they had much personality.

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