I loved this book! It is an easy read and I wish I had a book like this when I was still in my teens. I looooved the worldbuilding and the concept of magic and singing! I hope many many young girls (and boys) get to enjoy this book and maybe find some comfort in the characters they might identify with!

I wanted to like the book, I really did. But I don't. The magic system and World building seems crude and the characters are flat. I can't sympathise with any of them (there isn't a single character that I really liked or enjoyed reading about). Also as the reader I couldn't comprehend the decisions they made, the thoughts they had and how they behaved. It felt like the Author inserts random (not always matching) informations just to make the storyline reasonable (and in the end it all still feels unreasonable). There wasn't a clear thread to follow, 2/3 of the book nothing happened and the last 1/3 was rushed. Also, as some other reviews mentioned <spoiler> it seems weird that the so strong and powerful queen and chief justicar can be defeded so easily. </spoiler> The last 100 pages I mostly skimmed instead of read and I only finished the book because of my stubbornness. But at least it was sapphic, even if the romance was not as good as I hoped :')

I liked how magic was portrayed in this book. Everything else was boring. The villian wasn't really a villain, just a women whose heart was broken by a man. The sapphic romance was cute, but it felt more like a friendship. The female leads were annoying. They were complaining all the time but wouldn't do something against their situation. The "big showdown" was predictable and for the whole book they weren't talking about a revolution. Just for like 50 pages, a resistence against the queen was all they were talking about. I liked that one of the main characters, Remi, was plus sized and confident in her body. How the gruesome scenes were described was fascinating.  It is not a terrible book, but also not a good one. There are worse.