I'm really enjoying the dark, almost grittiness to this, and how the narrative isn't trying to elevate Tilde to make her into some perfect victim deserving of some righteous justice. There's probably a better way to put it that I can't think of right now but I love how things are slowly getting revealed to show that Tilde's mother perhaps wasn't the fierce and loyal protector that Tilde believed her to be. And I love that she's getting forced to make decisions that have repercussions?

I don't know, I guess because I've read some pretty middling things this year, it's nice to see a book commit to its premise and not try to soften everything in favour of the FMC.

(Also thank you Hannah Kaner for keeping everything that happens with Tilde and Liran off the page, there are so many authors that wouldn't. I hope Tilde gets the chance to murder the bastard at some point.)