Shannon Rizzo’s Reviews > Heir of Ruin > Status Update

23% in and neither main character has met the other, and it's just the end of the first day. How do you spend a fourth of a book on one day, which for the FMC has entailed being forced by her aunt the queen to use her magic on someone and now she's drinking away her problems. And the MMC has spent 22% of the book in an action-packed chase that lasted about an hour despite it being a fourth of the book.