the only reason i didn't DNF this was bc i'm out rn and i have no other books with me rn and this was only slightly better than doing absolutely nothing

it's just not the story, the characters, the setting, or the prose for me. i can acknowledge that bc so many people have loved this. i have come to find i'm just not interested in these characters and so there wasn't much to hold me into the story. did anything really meaningful happen? not really except for the last like 30 pages.

siyon was borderline annoying. it was like evans was trying a bit toooo hard to make him likeable. who acts like that irl? or even what kind of behavior is this? idk when i don't find the main character compelling it's hard to find the story interesting too. like at least fervent hatred keeps me going.

zagiri: i wish she spent more time in politics. but then her reasoning was to be good and make changes for the better. ugh so boring. i like her but her "not like other girls" attitude was tiresome. funny how she pops up running around like an excited puppy always when she's needed the most.

anahid: yeah she's cool she's becoming her own person. i like the sister representation here. that's literally all i can say about her.

so wasn't interested, the lack of izmirlian maybe? i very much wanted to like it as well. maybe reading The First Law trilogy and the Age of Madness trilogy between this and notorious sorcerer ruined my expectations. like now all i want are awful characters doing terrible things and nonstop action. all that to say wrong place wrong time for me. i might read the last book but only for the potential siyon/izmirlian stuff. you couldn't get me to care about the djins and the planes and whatnot.