I bought this book on holiday in Stockholm last year and it’s been sitting on my tbr ever since. I’m seriously wondering why I didn’t pick it up sooner, because honestly? This might’ve been my easiest rated 5 ⭐️ read this year - right after Sarah J. Maas’ House of Flame and Shadow that is - because this book absolutely delivered!♥️ The world building was immaculate and so different from everything I’ve read up to this point. Which is exactly why I enjoyed it so much. Everything felt so unique and it was impossible to predict what happens next. Of course, in this genre like in any other, some things are more likely than others, but all in all, this book brought me so much joy because of all the unexpected things that happened in between. Seriously, that plot twist near the end hit me so unexpected, that I spent the rest of the evening trying to pick my jaw off the floor and questioning every single one of the 440 pages I’d read before

WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.

WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.

WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.