This was very hard for me to finish and I didn't even like it 🫠 The things I do for a pretty badge... I was excited because the plot was actually very promising: magic, jam and books! Some of my favorite elements. But unfortunately, this wasn't it.

🍃 Larren had the personality of a cardboard, and I felt like their lovestory was very forced since the beginning. It was ridiculous how many times Kiela tells us that she's ✨️ blue ✨️ but we aren't told anything about his physical appearance. We were told how much they were getting close, but I didn't actually see it. They were childhood friends but one has amnesia and the other one just says that she was "kind to him", like this can justify an infatuation, after more than a decade? Their kiss came out of nowhere and they had no chemistry AT ALL. It was almost like they didn't fall in love with each other because of who they are, but just because it was convenient. He is the nice neighbor, and she's the new girl. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. And of course they will marry at the end because they weren't rushing enough already. Also, I didn't like the villagers just trauma dumping Larren's past on her over tea ☠️ Why would you do that? And then this topic is NEVER brought up again. We just have to accept it.

🔥 I felt like the Radane plot was so unnecessary and rushed. First she was a sweetheart, then she turns into this nosy menace because of her personal goals, and the next day she was trusting them with all her secrets and falling in love with someone she just met?

🚺 At the beginning it's made very clear that Kiela is kind of a privileged snob, and because of this I thought that the politics aspect would have been more explored in the story. Even if Kiela does indeed grow during the story, I didn't feel like at the end she really understood why the rebels burnt the library in the first place.

Also, she's obsessed with people finding out about her magic but then she proceeds to do the most public magic show she can think of. Make it make sense 😅