Member Reviews
I was drawn in by the queer fantasy with elements of mythology. The worldbuilding here was decent, I was actually interested in the political structure from the varying regions. The lore was rich as well, full of mythological creatures (representation!!🤩🤩) seen as part of society in broad daylight and not just regarded as stories or legends.
However the plot was not very engaging, but it was passable. Mostly because half of it was just the self-serving political ambitions that one of the MCs were trying to achieve, which didn't garner a lot of sympathy from me, but that could just be me personally. The younger cousin tagging along was a fairly random occurrence. She didn't even have a strong story arc to follow and was mostly just a pawn to be played in the larger plot.
Speaking of the MCs, I didn't like both. Aurelius is manipulative and cocky. He's well written if that's the goal of him, but you can understand that those aren't the most shining qualities you would want your main driving force of the plot to have for the entire story. We see a bit of his past which gives the readers some insights to him as a person, but it comes too late and by then I was already quite done with it.
Teigra was just...bad. I can't blame her for being the epitome of a young and dumb 18 year old. Just consistently dumb throughout the story, I felt bad for her but at some point her weakness just got annoying.
The good news is this is part of a series and there's a lot of room for improvement for these characters. The ending implies teigra getting a new arc after the events that happened (yass grow bitch🙄🥱), and Aurelius can probably stop being so..him.. now that he's with Calix.
This was actually so fun to read, wasn't as dark and gritty as I thought it would be but was going to be but I still enjoyed it
The story was slow paced but that went well with the characters