Leilin’s Reviews > Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame > Status Update

From the cover, was expecting some sort of strong, harden knight and a shrewd queen... but this is way blander than that, so far, with fairly mid characters. Yeva's growth is too fast and not rewarding, because she is not really a closed off, grizzled knight at all to begin with. Meanwhile the story is too slow, not helped by the writing: very contemplative and passive, too self consciously trying to be lyrical imo.