infinite stars/5

A masterpiece. I’m going to need more asap please and thank you because I don’t think I can wait for the next.

As a massive fan of Brigitte’s fan fiction, to being able to read her debut novel! I’m obsessed. Expect superbly written characters, enemies to lovers, unannounced giggling fits and lots of blushing.

The way the characters are deliciously written to being completely utterly funny, clever and witty. I ate every crumb up, I think this marks my favourite read of 2025 by far.

The arrogance the characters command was just perfectly balanced. I devoured it.

I adore this form of omniscient narrative storytelling, it’s extremely engaging and has a flare of what reminds me of Dickens writing where it’s interactive, going through the motions to capture the audience and hit comical moments whilst providing vivid descriptions that we as readers can use. This novel is a masterful. There’s something about it where it makes you hang on every word wanting and waiting for more.

Hooked: So so clever, Brigitte’s choice of words were brilliant and just sucked me in so much more. The writing was superbly elegant yet tastefully vulgar that had me in constant giggling fits.

I truly can’t wait to see what comes next!
Thank you so so much to little brown book group and NetGalley for providing the opportunity to arc read one of my most anticipated reads of the year!

This was so amazing and interesting. It has all the tropes I absolutely love ❤️ enemies to lovers in fantasy romance with brilliant characters! So perfect and wonderful combination to read from starting to the ending. It's the book 1 of the series and the author has brilliantly drafted the story with well paced plotline and easy narration, which makes my reading experience much more better.

Osric is hilariously despicable

Osric needs auriennes help with something but he knew she would not agree to it as she despises people like him so he had to think of a plan to convince her to help him, if he could not convince her though he thought of other not so nice ways to force her to help him.

I need the next book like now.
You want a book that is that slow burn that it will keep teasing you that the characters may do more and yet they just slightly touch one another’s hands for 0.2 seconds then read this.

Thank you NetGalley, Brigitte knightley and little brown book group uk for the gifted eARC.

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for your Enemy by Brigitte Knightly is a romantasy book promising slow burn and enemies to lovers.

We are introduced to Aurienne Fairhrim a healer of the Harlan Order and Osric Mordaunt an assassin for the Feyren Order.

At the beginning of the book, there is a detailed description of each Order in this world, however not all of them are referred to in the story and so without context I didn’t find it particularly helpful. This might be better suited if there is more explained in book 2, but there was a distinct lack of world building present in this book yo get a sense of the world the author is trying to create.

I found the writing style particularly difficult to get my head around. The combination of really big words along with new words created for this story, was too much for my brain to handle.
It therefore took me a lot longer than normal to get through this book.

I felt like there were two district parts to this book. While there was an obvious build up to the events that happened towards the end of the book (which seem like a very clear set up for book 2), the beginning of the book felt very long and uneventful. I really struggled to get to the 70% mark and then had to put it down for a while. I really wanted to give this book a go as I did really enjoy the dynamics that were unfolding between the characters, however, so I picked it back up and I’m glad I did. The last 20% felt like a different story. While still full of big unnecessary words, events started to unfold that were interesting, with a clear mystery needing to be solved.
It had a Romeo and Juliet feel about it towards the end which I liked. Although I do hope Aurienne and Osric’s ending is less tragic!

I have hopes for book two, now that the story has gone somewhere, but I sense I may still struggle with the writing style of this author.

I’d go to 3.5 stars because of the last 20% of the book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Little Brown Book Group UK for the opportunity to read this ARC. The views in this review are my own.

This book such an adventure. I was so engaged, fully engrossed and I didn’t want it to end.
The glossary was a little intimidating, but the magic system and world building is so extensive that you do need that bit of context to begin with. With the extra depth and richness of the layers of the story, it jumped right off the page. The side characters and the lore is such a treat, as is the bickering and the banter (or is it all teasing and flirting? Hard to know). It’s laugh out loud funny and so so clever. The slow burn is delicious and agonising.
This is one of my most anticipated reads for this year and it truly didn’t disappoint. I hope we get more!

Absolutely loved this. Two different orders. One for healing and one for killing. Osric needs help with not dying and Aurienne needs help with stopping children from dying from the Pox. Together they help get each other get what they want, hiding from both their orders. They go to brothels, lighthouses and infiltrating other orders together. Knowing the other only wants something in return doesn't stop them from falling for each other.

I really enjoyed the banter and goading that the two main characters engage in. I never read the fanfiction that the story got adapted to however I can definitely see who these characters are based on. Can't wait until the next.

Three words to describe this book:
murder
medicine
tacn

GORGEOUS , AMAZING , FASCINATING , SPECTACULAR
I can't get the right words to describe the book GOD That was a well written book in my opinion I need a sequel rn . The book was recommended by my sister as she loves the author so much and she told that It will give me a good feeling by the end and she WAS RIGHT , I AM IN LOVE RIGHT NOW

I really enjoyed the humour and the romance but the plot was a very thin. Nothing really happens in this book to move the plot forward with either the pox or Osric's healing and the ending felt a bit anti climatic - the plot is very much the romance and whilst I did enjoy the romance I just wanted more from the story outside of the romance.

When I requested this book I didn't know that it was meant to be Dramione inspired and when I was reading it before I knew that I couldn't tell and it stood as its own original work - but once I knew I could see the HP inspiration and knowing that definitely took away from my enjoyment of the book. I find the idea of writing and marketing a book in 2025 to be in any way associated with JKR disgusting and I don't understand why the publisher and the author would both do that for a completely unique story. This book would stand on its own and be completely fine without using the work of transphobe to market it.

DNF. I really wanted to like this book but this just didn’t work for me. I really struggled with this, but I know plenty of readers out there will like this. Sadly it just didn’t work for me.

Unfortunately I had to stop reading this book, I couldn't handle the commentary and I feel so upset over it. I wanted to love it. But it's not for me.

- English review - (french below - français dessous)

A slow burn like never before
English humor
Two emotionally constipated idiots.

A writing style bordering on genius and madness, humor so dry it makes you choke, and dialogue so brilliant I want to use it in real life. In the end, I would have saved time by highlighting the entire novel.

This novel won't be for everyone, but I need it in liquid form so I can inject it intravenously when I feel down.

Aurienne is a healer forced to treat Osric, an assassin consumed by a magical illness. They are enemies on paper : their professions oppose each other, as do their principles. She heals, he kills.
Yet we discover that they are terribly similar : arrogant, cynical, competent, and mutually detesting. Every dialogue is a duel to the death where you must emerge victorious to save your oversized ego. Then, little by little, what begins as animosity evolves into curiosity...

This novel reinvents the concept of slow burn. Almost nothing happens for 90% of the novel, but you have to read between the lines (and the insults) to see the tension rise and their relationship develop. We want to see them fall in love, but we can't help but adore the banter.

The secondary characters, although few in number, are all more crazy than the last and contribute greatly to the plot.

On the negative side, I regret the lack of development of the universe and the magic system, which are nevertheless promising: rival orders, an alternative and folkloric United Kingdom, magical familiars... For example, magic has a cost, but I would have liked more impact on the plot.

If you've read and loved the original fanfiction, you won't be disappointed, provided you accept that this isn't a retelling but a completely different story.

In short, a romance novel like you've never read before. Enjoy without moderation.

- Avis en français -

Un slow burn, t’as jamais vu ça
Le premier degré ? Connais pas
Deux idiots émotionnellement constipés

Une plume à la frontière entre le génie et la folie, un humour si sec qu’on s’étouffe, et des dialogues tellement brillants que j’ai envie de les utiliser dans la vraie vie. A la fin j’aurais gagné du temps en surlignant le roman entier.

Ce roman ne sera pas pour tout le monde mais j'en ai besoin sous forme liquide pour pouvoir me l’injecter en intraveineuse en cas de déprime.

Aurienne est une guérisseuse contrainte de soigner Osric, un assassin rongé par une maladie magique. Ils sont ennemis sur le papier : leurs métiers s’opposent, leurs principes aussi. Elle soigne, il tue.
On découvre pourtant qu’ils sont terriblement similaires : arrogants, cyniques, compétents, et se détestent mutuellement. Chaque dialogue est un duel à mort ou il faut ressortir vainqueur pour sauver son égo surdimensionné.
Puis, peu à peu, ce qui commence par de l’animosité évolue vers de la curiosité…

Ce roman réinvente le concept du slow burn. Il ne se passe quasiment rien pendant 90% du roman mais il faut lire entre les lignes (et les insultes) pour voir la tension monter et leur relation se créer. On souhaite les voir tomber amoureux mais on ne peut s'empêcher d’adorer le banter.

Les personnages secondaires, bien que peu nombreux, sont tous plus fêlés les uns que les autres et ont bien contribué à l’intrigue.

Côté négatif, je regrette un manque de développement de l’univers et du système de magie, qui sont pourtant prometteurs : ordres rivaux, Royaume-Uni alternatif et folklorique, familiers magiques… Par exemple, la magie a un coût mais j’aurai aimé plus de conséquence sur l’intrigue.

Si vous avez lu et aimé la fanfiction d’origine, vous ne serez pas déçu à condition d’accepter que ce n’est pas une réécriture mais un récit totalement différent.

En bref, une romantasy comme vous n’en avez jamais lue. À consommer sans modération.

I really don’t like the way this book ends.

(Warning there might be spoilers)

I was really excited when I received this digital ARC copy to read this book. The summary looked very interesting, the cover is quite nice but I’m really disappointed. I won’t comment on the fantasy part because it’s not my area of expertise but I will make a remark on the romance part. Or maybe I should say the lack of. I know it was supposed to be slow burn but there was no burn until like 90% of the book. The all time it felt more platonic than anything. The banter was great at the beginning but after the 3/4 of the book I just got bored.

Also the plot change felt weird, in the beginning we were focused on healing the MMC but in the end, it took a back seat to the pox investigation. (Is he gonna live ?!)

As said in the beginning, I really don’t like the end of this book. It feels unfinished. Even though I know now that there is a sequel I still think that it deserved a better ending (yes I’m repeating myself).

(This is a hot review, I just finished the book, excuse the mistakes)

That was WONDERFUL! This author show me again that she knew how to write slow burn, SLOW BURN IS SLOW BURNING IN THIS ONE!

I am a big fan of her dramione fanfic and I know this is an original story but I love how she maintains Draco/Hermione vibe and banter from DMATMOOBIL and also gives us something new.

I was gripped by this from the beginning, when I read a Glossary and I thought “omg, that will be so cool” AND IT WAS! The worldbuilding was so interesting and for me sufficient for this story. After all is more like a romcom with fantasy background than fantasy book with big world and big stakes. That was so funny that I was laughing out loud in public. I really liked main characters - Osric and Arienne, their banter was fantastic! I wish I was this witty and smart in my jokes like Brigitte Knightley.

I also really liked a STEM element in this story, I need more of this in fantasy genre.

In conclusion: I need a second book. NOW.

The Irresistible Urge to Fall in Love with your Enemy is a glorious bit of fun. Criminally mislabeled as Dramione fanfic, Ms. Knightly’s debut novel is, in fact, a delightful Regency Romantasy.

The story follows Aurienne, a scholarly healer, and Osric, a gentleman assassin. Their orders are sworn enemies, and their personalities couldn’t be more different; she, the bluestocking spinster; he, the unreformed rake. But when Osric finds himself in dire need of healing, he makes Aurienne an offer she can't refuse: a generous donation to fight a deadly pox devastating poor children. A collaboration ensues. Experts in their respective fields (STEM, Murder), can they overcome their differences to investigate his illness and the origin of the deadly pox? Will they ever stop bickering long enough to realise that opposites attract?

I loved the world, full of derelict pubs, folkloric creatures, and a dash of dark academia (the pub is called the Publish or Perish). The story is set in a magical, counterfactual fin de siècle Britain, in which the Norman conquest never happened, and the British Isles remain divided in 10 petty Tiendoms (cue political intrigue!). There are eight magical orders located throughout the kingdoms and travel takes place through weystones located at pubs - each more comical than the last.

Ms. Knightley’s writing is deliciously reminiscent of PG Wodehouse, full of witty and humorous prose, comedic situations, satire, and word play. I laughed so loud reading the novel that my children accused me of being anti-social - I daren’t repeat any of the jokes to them!

The Irresistible Urge to Fall in Love with your Enemy is perfect for fans of Jane Austen, PG Wodehouse, or anyone who ever wished Bridgerton were romantasy. I can't wait for Book 2!

3 ✨

𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅, "𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆."
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆.

"𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒔𝒎𝒖𝒈 – 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒕 – 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 – 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔."
"𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒃𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏?"
"𝑨𝒓𝒎 𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒔," 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆.
"𝑨𝒓𝒎 𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒔?" 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕.
"𝑰’𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒐𝒑 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆," 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆, 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆.
"𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖."

I laughed so hard at times while reading this book, like it was really hilarious!! Top-notch cringe worthy word mentions and dialogues with lots of dark humor!
Things I enjoyed: their banter, the parody feeling
Things I didn't enjoy: the fantasy terminologies, it was hard to go through at the beginning, the lack of a good plot and the repetitive scenes in the healing process.

I feel like I had a good time reading this but I wouldn't say I would read it again or that I am intrugued to see what will happen next, though it was refreshing to read a fantasy comedy-like book!


𝐀 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐑𝐂 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰.

3.5

i’m so 50/50 on this one. on one hand, i loved it, but on the other hand - it took me so long to really get into the book and feel a connection with the characters.

the writing format threw me off. i’m not sure if this is the official format or if it just downloaded weird, but it read odd. it was filled with inconsistencies and minor errors that just piled up. the usage of certain words felt out of place and almost felt like a tool to “elevate” the writing, but ultimately left the sentence feeling clunky and awkward. it felt pretentious almost?

the world building needed a little bit of work. i felt immediately thrown into a vast world that i knew NOTHING about and i couldn’t tell if this was intention or not. you eventually kind of clue into things, but there were instances where i felt like the author could have taken some more
time to build out the world for the reader.

the highlight of the book - the romance. the author does an amazing job at writing romance and creating a romance between two characters who very much so hate each other upon meeting. their romance arc is incredibly believable and the build-up was so fascinating! i adored these two! enemies to lovers can be hard to write in a way that’s always believable, but the author does a terrific job at nailing this! being so in love with the person you hate that you can’t even see it, can’t even admit it to yourself - beautiful!!!

overall - i wish the world building and magic system was explained a bit better and less rushed. i also hope that the writing format gets fixed. the cliffhanger left me intrigued enough to read the second book. despite everything - i still did really enjoy the last 40% of the book. i just wish that it didn’t take me so long to get into it. i overall still recommend it.

thank you little brown book group uk and brigitte knightley for this arc in exchange for my honest review! i appreciate it

I went into The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy expecting a sharp, tension-filled enemies-to-lovers romance set in a fantastical world. The premise was genuinely intriguing: Osric Mordaunt, a member of the deadly Fyren Order of assassins, is forced to seek healing from his ideological opposite, Aurienne Fairhrim—a morally upright healer and scientist from an enemy Order. A reluctant alliance forms when Aurienne, desperate for funding to continue her work, accepts Osric’s bribe despite her disdain for everything he represents. A healer and a killer, bound together by necessity and slowly smoldering attraction? That should’ve been catnip.

But 56 pages in, I had to stop.

The very first red flag came with the glossary. It was overwhelming, almost intimidating in scope, and felt more like I was prepping for a tabletop RPG than reading a fantasy romance. The worldbuilding wasn’t gradually introduced or layered in—it was dumped, and I felt immediately alienated from the story.

Tonally, the writing is wildly inconsistent. There’s a jarring mix of formal and overly casual language: one moment characters are “sparing” at a “delicate juncture,” and the next someone’s described as “pissing themselves.” It made the story feel tonally unmoored. Combine that with a sentence structure that heavily favors short, abrupt bursts, and the prose just lacked any real flow. I constantly felt like I was being yanked between styles, never quite settling in.

Humour is clearly a big part of this book’s personality—it leans hard into a comedy-forward approach—but it rarely landed for me. There were moments where I caught a clever line or chuckled at a sharp bit of banter, but they were often followed by something like a reference to “dangly bits” that snapped me right out of it. At times, the tone veered so far into the juvenile that it was difficult to take either the romance or the characters seriously.

Oddly, for a book that pitches itself as a fantasy romance, the focus is largely on Osric’s mysterious medical condition. The dynamic between him and Aurienne plays out almost entirely in the context of extended medical consultations. Their interactions are detailed to the point where I felt like I was eavesdropping on real-world doctors’ appointments—thorough, slightly surreal, and not particularly romantic. The blend of detailed diagnostics and half-hearted flirtation made for a disorienting reading experience. It’s a bizarre juxtaposition: one minute we’re deep in a strangely realistic medical investigation, and the next we’re supposed to feel sparks between these two ideological enemies.

And that mystery subplot—the reappearance of a deadly pox—while clearly intended to tie them together professionally, felt secondary to the never-ending diagnostic dialogue. There’s little exploration of the larger fantasy world or the Orders they belong to. Everything is laser-focused on Osric’s health and their reluctant collaboration, which might work better if the tone weren’t swinging wildly between satire and sincerity.

Ultimately, I had to put the book down. I didn’t connect with the characters, I struggled with the tone, and while I respect the bold mix of elements Knightley was going for—murderous assassin meets noble scientist, medical mystery meets forbidden romance—it just didn’t come together for me. Maybe it finds its footing later on, but I didn’t have the patience to stick around and find out.

I loved this so much! Charming, tense and fantastically written - this is romantasy in the best possible way! I'm obsessed. It's essentially a rom-com set in a fantasy setting and I completely adore that about it. These characters leap off of the page and into your heart and the slow burn is so slow, it's almost frustrating - but it's all the more sweet for it. Everyone should read this!

Many thanks to Little, Brown Book Group UK and NetGalley for this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The tropes consist of:
Magic system
Enemies to lovers
Slow burn
Forced proximity
Morally grey MMC
Political intrigue

When this book was announced, I was intrigued by the story as well as the long title. An assassin with an incurable magical condition coerces a haelan (magical healer) in a rival order into finding a way to cure him.

The premise of enemies to lovers is setup well and I definitely felt a visceral hatred between the two leads. Their banter was entertaining and the most enjoyable scenes were them arguing and throwing insults at each other. I enjoyed their animosity and chemistry even if the worldbuilding around them was not fully developed.

The writing style is unique and takes some getting used to. It is quite wordy with magical terminology, medical jargon and use of old fashioned English words that I did not recognise. This meant I could not feel fully immersed in the world because words or phrases that were unfamiliar which would take me out of things. The tone switches between rom-com and dark comedy and sometimes this works and other times it feels a bit jarring.

It is a slow burn romance so the agonising build up does add to the enjoyment but as a result the pacing may be a struggle for some people as the chapters are very dialogue heavy and scenes can feel a bit repetitive.

There is some background political intrigue and a subplot involving a mystery which sparked my interest and I would have liked to focus on this a bit more.

I hope the sequel smooths over some of these rough edges as the story has a lot of potential but the execution did not quite land for me. Overall, still a pleasant reading experience but not a book I would be in a hurry to re-read.

3.5 stars but rounding up to 4 stars for the purposes of this review.

3,75/5 I really enjoyed the book, it scratched my craving for another book by Brigitte Knightley but it did not really lived up to the DMATMOOBIL. Don't get me wrong, it was great but in this instance the writing kinda threw me off. There was a little too much of the medical jargon, way too many weird old words, a lot of repetitive and crude jokes and I also unfortunately don't speak french, so I had to look up words more then I wanted to.
The worldbuilding also fell a bit flat for me. I couldn't place the setting timewise, not many things about magical system were explained and I dunno, I just felt that there could be much more explored there.
The characters of Aurienne and Osric had undeniable chemistry, but as individuals felt a bit underdeveloped and I never felt a deeper connection to them as characters and was more invested in the enemies-to-lovers romance slowly blooming between them. But even that was really slow burning, which is fine by me, but the connection between them never felt that deep to be called love, lust definitively but not love. The enemies premise was set up perfectly, they loathed each other from the beginning and them trying (and failing) to be civil with each other was entertaining.
The plot itself was kinda interesting, very much reminding me of the DMATMOOBIL but as a new take and with new stakes. I just wished it was a bit more developed, the book could have been much longer and with the added world-building it would actually feel more well rounded and the reader would breeze though it more smoothly.

I'll definitely read the second book and actually can't wait for the publication, because the ending...!

Thank you to NetGalley and Little Brown Book Group for this ARC.