Fluid, readable, not much brain power needed. A bit gory for YA, but the writing is YA and there is no spice. The book should have been 20% shorter. The middle part was too long, the inner monologue of the MC too repetitive and then the last 20 pages were rushed and chaotic. The trials themselves were less dangerous than all the things that happened to them between the trials, which is weird... I have strong suspicion that the cover art was made with AI 🙄 I will read the second book when it comes out. What I don't understand is how can a book get a movie adaptation when it was just only released and the second part isn't even out yet 🤔