It was starting so well, I loved the idea, but at the end of the book I just had an "all of that for this?" feeling...

I loved the idea of getting powers from specific magical spices drinken as a tea, with a tea ceremony every day. I loved the djinn legends and all other monsters, specially when we started getting some at the beginning and I really thought we'd get so much more and I was expecting a lot. But in the end I feel like the story was poorly executed: we travel, we get to the city we were meant to be, nothing happens as expected, and the end. I felt like the characters did so much, traveled for so long, only for going somewhere else but still knowing exactly what would happen to Imani's brother and knowing exactly what Imani would do at the end of this book to continue the trilogy - because it feels too much like an introduction.

By the way I disliked Imani, she was insufferable, selfish, thought she was better than everyone and thought she had the rights to do everything she wants. Taha was truly interesting as a character itself because of how he played in the story, but I disliked him as a love interest. Our djinn Qayn was the most interesting character and the only one who actually made me smile by some of his remarks and the way he acted, but I felt like him as a character, with his powers and story was badly developped, or maybe too confusedly for me to catch everything in audiobook?

I don't think I'd be reading the next book, I sadly didn't find any interest in the characters nor the story to get me to want to continue.