Leo’s Reviews > An Ember in the Ashes > Status Update

Sorry for being That Bitch but am I supposed to take this seriously or is there some complicated satire going on? Because the book tries hard to sell itself as dark and gritty with the female protag immediately in danger of being raped, murdered and/or enslaved and at the military school students are punished with steel-tipped floggings WHILE THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED SCHOLARS AND MARTIALS?? WDYM THOSE AREN'T TITLES ;__;