Overall, I did enjoy this book. I think the magic system was interesting, and I really liked our main crew of characters. I think the MC being a jester and the injection of the humor and acrobatics of someone in that profession genuinely added to my enjoyment of the story. The dialogue felt pretty normal for the most part, and I liked that. I think this story overall has good bones, but it was hard for me to be invested in the overall plot/story. It felt like we jumped around a lot from place to place without building the emotional depth and the why of the story. I think if we had more pages to develop the backstory, character motivations and getting more insight that would have significantly bumped this up for me. I still overall enjoyed this book though.
I will say the romance feels super jumbled in this for me, and it felt a lot like instalove for me where I really want true yearning for a romantic interest. It didn’t add a lot to the story for me, and it felt forced most of the time to try and move the story along.