Extremely bland, slow paced, and irrational.

So I liked the first book. It was a cool setting. Interesting dynamics and paced rather well. It was an interesting coming of age tale.

However this one kept losing my interest. The mother Rosamin kept making poor rash decisions, is counseled not to do them says “you’re right” and does it anyways. The daughter of the hawkspirers storyline was uninteresting.

The high priest is just a zealot and it makes zero sense why anyone is intimidated by him other than his hulking drake knight WHO HAS DAMNING EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM. See’s it’s wrong and still thinks this man is holy. The drake knight’s storyline is generic being “The gruff knight softened by the innocence of a child they have to protect”.

In short I just wasn’t a fan.