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4 stars

This was a very pleasant find on netgalley! It's not revolutionary or anything, but it hits all the points it's trying to hit and then some. There were developments with Quin that were really interesting, and the cast of characters were nice to read. The book doesn't fully tackle some more complicated aspects of its themes, but based on the preview given for book 2, I do believe it plans to.

I'm excited to see where the series goes from here. We learned a lot of stuff about the world in this book, but I really feel (or maybe hope) the rest of the series will dig into what it has now that the foundation is there. This is definitely a series I recommend for young readers. This is already a good story for adult me, but I'm very sure pre-teen me would have absolutely loved this.