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At this point a 5 star read. Cool magic system (reminiscent of Warbreaker by BranSan, give it a listen if you enjoy this, less romance but actually one of his more romance driven books). The banter is fantastic, which is impressive considering the MMC barely speaks for the first quarter of the book (you'll get why that's funny if you read it). Already reserved the next 2 in the series.

About to be returned automatically through Hoopla, so just putting this here in case it doesn't save my progress. Not very good so far though. Skipped forward from 45% to about 55% because it was dragging. I clearly didn't miss much.

Meh. Might be a DNF. Premise so far: some people are afflicted (infected?) with a curse that eventually turns them into a dragon. Young FMC is one such person and she is forced to pursue a career as a dragon hunter against her will. In order to become a knight, a bunch of teenagers are locked in a temple for a few weeks to see who is strong enough and who is infected.

Not good so far. The dialogue is childish. The writing style sounds like it was written by an AI prompted to write a YA romantasy.

1 star so far. It's in the third person and the whole premise is stupid. An election process that involves torturing the candidates to see who should govern. How does that make sense? And there are fae/half fae who everyone hates. But actually it doesn't actually matter at all if you're fae because you're not allowed to use magic on people.

So many typos! Words left out a lot.

Not sure this is worth finishing. The "world building" is all telling, not showing. Constant conversations of explanations and questions. The rest of the series has even better ratings, but working through this one might prove too difficult.

Decent so far. The FMC is a tad young for me (only 19). Her inner monologue is pretty funny at times and totally random and hard to follow at others. I'm listening to it on audiobook, so sometimes it's hard to tell when she's thinking or talking out loud.

Pretty darn terrible so far. The dialogue and characters are juvenile- more like high schoolers than adults. And the whole premise: a girl (I refuse to call her a woman) drops out of the sky into a world of vampires from her world of fae, where she just finished destroying the world or something, and now she's struggling to stay alive in high school.

So far, slow paced and stereotypical faery trope. Two things that have bothered me: author's use of the word myriad. It's supposed to be singular, not plural but twice she's used it incorrectly. Also wrote inane instead of insane once. Plot point I didn't care for: when she was worried about being late to class so instead of using the trails to get across campus, she *jumps in the freezing river* to make it?!

Still bad. It took her a week to travel from one place to another and her friend makes the journey in one day? She's spent the whole last week getting measured every day for dresses (why?) and later says she only knows how dress fittings work from her slave days? Doesn't want to make Zoe uncomfortable but takes every opportunity to antagonize him. Rides a horse like a natural, then randomly flies off when startled.

Still trudging through. MC feels bad about accidently getting a couple guards killed and swears to never put someone in that position again. 2 pages later she's declaring her new guards her enemies and trying to escape without a care as to what happens if they fail at their job, even mocks how seriously he takes his job. And all day, every day she just meanders around the city buying things- with what money exactly?

I'm having to force myself to keep reading at this point. The writing isn't great (68 pages in and the word ravening has been used 5 times). There have been quite a few typos already. The main character seems to vacillate between being completely innocent and suddenly knowledgeable- for example, she's studied maps of the Fae lands but doesn't know anything about the land she's grown up in for 18 years.