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Reading this is like eating too much candy all at once; it starts to feel saccharine-sweet and you're not sure if you'll end up with a tummy ache afterwards. But sometimes that's just where the night takes you. It's not necessarily a bad thing; just something that happens every once in a while.

The overall plot was... thin... to put it nicely. Lots of not very fleshed out characters making dumb decisions for dumb reasons. I was thoroughly annoyed by Asher being a thick-headed, stubborn, mule of a male and that specific plot point wore thin pretty quickly. Nova wasn't much better and had way too many 2d Mary Sue-ish moments. Honestly, I'd almost rather read more about Drake, but the way the book ended with Drake (setting up for book two) felt kind of off putting how little emotion was shown all around. Weird, but ok?

I did like the writing style, which flowed and the attention to detail which kept me tethered, so not all bad. With that said, I am curious to see where this goes so I'll give the second book a shot.

As a recommendation, if you need a palate cleanser from some of the darker works out there (looking at you, Liv Zander's Court of Ravens!) and tired of the cottagecore books coming out (no, really, Sarah Beth Durst, I do like Spellshop), this could be it.