Æva: The Wild

This wasn't the worst, which is why I'm giving it two stars instead of one but, it needed so much more character development for me to believe any of the relationships, and for me to think it was a good book.
Aeva needed more time and story with Wulfram, Aelric, and Idin for me to believe that they'd care about her, especially for Idin to be in love with her.

Bayan should've had more to his character than just being the mustache twirling bad guy who wants the main character only because she provides ‘legitimacy' to his claim to the throne; which by the way, did the heroine really need to be a princess?

It also felt like Aeva was just being pushed around throughout the story, and not in a “this is based in the ‘before the year 1000' days and women don't have rights” kinda way but, in a ‘the character doesn't make any decisions for herself' kinda way: yeah she chose to follow them but, it was Wulfram's' choice to let her stay, she wanted to go with the group but Bayan made them leave without her, she tried to leave Bayan but Wulfram brought her back. None of her choices mattered unless one of the other characters also wanted the same thing.