*Note: This was received as an arc through Netgalley. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own

Honestly, I DNFed this book at like 14% and that was a bummer as I really wanted to enjoy it. The alternative-historical setting is fascinating and fun, there's already a number of interesting characters I wanted to know better, and the story did start flowing pretty decently at a certain point. It's just that the copy I received was an unedited arc, and I was struggling a lot with the writing early on and wasn't sure if it was just the way the author wrote or related to it being unedited. I powered through a bit though as the story started to just flow for me which was promising so I thought maybe we were over the hurdle. Until we come to a time jump and learn that the main character has a made a choice that left me feeling deeply, deeeply uncomfortable. And I just felt like it's not a decision the main character would make especially as another character that was important to her would not have approved. And that was where I decided to DNF. Perhaps, in future I'll give this book another shot, but for the time being I just. . . I'm not interested in finishing it.