Sadly this was only a 2,5 star read for me. The pacing was all over the place and the book felt like it was going through an identity crisis. I didn't like the first ~ 40% of the book because it felt like just another all over the place romantasy book. Then we switch over to this being a heist book which was actually fun and then there is a mishmash of political fantasy and again romantasy. I didn't get a feel for any motivations of the main characters most just *are* and they're just stumbeling through the plot because whatever. I also thought the whole garden ring concept of people having rings indicating their gender and sexual preferences was an okayish idea at first but after the third character being introduced with a bullet point list of their sexual identity including kinks it just felt so out of place?? At the end I just didn't care for anyone or anything in this book and don't even know why I finished it.