First half is pure teen cringe followed by horror movie level of stupidity. Let’s imprison a bird in a tower. Let’s leave this world artifact desired by everyone in the middle of the road for anyone to take. Let’s ignore the entire twilight throne influence buff and debuff despite talking about it throughout the book. it’s like, why bother telling us about these mechanics if they don’t play a part in the story? so much inconsistency within the world from book to book. Travis rewrites the rules to fit the narrative instead of writing within his worlds rules and it is annoying.