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~DNF @2 22%~
1 star for what I did read, which albeit, wasn't much... Spoiler free review!
Sorry I just can't go one, every time I think of having to pick up this book to give it just a few more pages, I just do have no desire...
The only thing that I liked was the unique magic system.
Everything else was just subpar or awkward for me.
The main character is bland she doesn't intrigue me or make me want to root for her.
The prince is naive, unaware of his privilege, and all of that bothers me immensely.
The crows as a clan had an interesting hierarchy because of the magic, but otherwise had strange traditions (like the money dance?).
The dialogue was strange and difficult to follow.
To top off how bored I was -- the world is minimally fleshed out and the writing is bland.
I really wanted to like this, because it was a duology I wanted to binge and I thought it would give me the creepy death vibes and magical world I was looking for, but nope.