DNF at 36%.

Three reasons, one specific to my tastes, and two of which shouldn't apply to the published version (I had an ARC from Netgalley). So YMMV, and probably will.

1. It's dystopian, and that is so very not my jam. I gave up at the point where the second despot had captured the protagonist for the second time and was about to torture her. I really didn't care how the author was going to contrive to get her out of it, or want to go through the protagonist's fear and pain in order to get to that point.

2. The publishers have uploaded it to Netgalley as a PDF, not an epub, and the formatting is borked. This is constantly distracting. (Again, this won't be a problem with the published version.)

3. The copy editing needs a lot of work. Really a lot. Hopefully won't be a problem by the time it's published, but combined with the other two, kept bumping me out of the story, which I didn't care all that much about to start with.

I mean, it had a motivated protagonist in a dynamic situation, which is usually a reliable way of getting and keeping my attention. <spoiler>The attractive guy with green eyes was <i>not</i> the love interest (I peeked at the end),</spoiler> so points for trope subversion. But it felt like a slog through a kind of story I dislike, and the characters didn't have enough depth to overcome the drawbacks.

What a great start to a new series. Well done Maria I loved it and am looking forward to the next book in the series.