EXCUSE YOU BITCH?? REAL PERSON?? TF YOU MEAN "She peered around for a real person." The janitor was right there. ARE YOU SERIOUS??? RACIST BITCH

What a waste of paper. Let's go through my list of grievances.

1. They never said what happens if you simply don't nominate anybody for the Trials. So why don't they just do that? Everybody has powers here. They can easily just fight back.
2. The banter and flirting would be so hot if I was 12. I'm not 12. This is just embarrassing. I'm the ripe age of 16. This is just embarrassing to read and witness. Paedyn is 18. Nobody 18 would ever, and I mean ever, call someone darling to flirt. Especially in a line that corny. This reeks of out of touch millennial. Please stop writing about 18 year olds. They would be Gen Z. Nobody Gen Z talks like you do. It's cringe.
3. The characters are so flat that Flat Stanley and heroin chic models would be jealous.
4. They keep on trying to make Kai seem like a good cop (as if that exists). Like dude, you kill people weekly/ monthly. And you sent a family to go into a deadly desert with no supplies. Somehow the book acts like doing that instead of immediately killing a kid is somehow a kindness. And the fact that he "doesn't let the servants do work for him" and is "nice to them" somehow makes up for the fact that he's a literal COP who kills poor people. And then he decides to listen to Paedyn about the class issues that have existed since forever but somehow you never bothered to care until the pretty girl taught you about class consciousness. Yeah ok. Eat the Rich.
5. Final annoyance: "who did this to you?" The bane of my existence. Cuz for one, your Imperials have been doing worse than just beating women from what's implied in the text. If you are their boss, there is no fucking way you conveniently didn't know. But somehow it matters to you when Paedyn gets a slap? Are we serious? This is why people apparently read this with brains off. Because when you think for 5 seconds, this man is a fucking monster. Like genuinely. Because from what's implied, he literally didn't GAF about his Imperials sexually assaulting and beating women. But God forbid Paedyn gets slapped, that ONE singular Imperial must be punished. Ignore the possibility of many men like him and worse being apart of your force. But sure let's basically allude to that and then act like that's peak romance.

Gang he's spitting. He is genuinely so goated. So many people misunderstood what he was trying to say over time and now I understand why. No, he didn't want to get rid of private property. He wanted to get rid of Bourgeoisie private property and give it to the people. No, he didn't want to abolish money and trade. He just wanted to end wage labour, where people have to continually work paycheck to paycheck to survive instead of thriving. He wanted to keep paychecks and trade. He just wanted to make it less miserable and less necessary for survival. He was so right. Everyone else just fucked it up.