Ehhhhhhhh.....no. I'll pass on this. 
 Since I didn't get too far, I'm not gonna rate it, but just say my thoughts on it instead. 
 First off though, let me just affirm that I really wanted to like this. Like really wanted to. Tons of people swear by it and I've heard such rave reviews of it for a while now. 
 But alas, here we are. So if you love this book and plan on reading this and sending me angry messages about how I'm wrong or whatever, please just stop now. Go do something happy. I'll wait. 
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 Okay now that they're gone, I can speak freely. (I'm tired and sick and don't feel like being bothered). 
 First of all, where is the plot? I got like 20% into the story and nothing happened that got me hooked. Like, what direction is this going? Is this supposed to be a love story? What immediate conflict is going on? Who are we rooting for? I don't get it. And I don't know the answers to any of these questions, which, to me, is a bad thing. The author spent about 100 pages telling us all this background information about Stuff and Things and Clans and other capitalized things that just got redundant and annoying. Like I appreciate her world-building, but this isn't a world-building exercise in a writing class, this is a book. I want things to happen. I want to go on an adventure. And I didn't with this, I was just bored and confused. 
 Also, all the stereotypical capitalized things did the opposite of their intended effect. They made me feel pushed out of the story. The only Capitalized Things I really liked were the descriptive earthy names given to the commoner people. "Hunts Alone" and "Fire Dancer" and various names given to people throughout their life as their characteristics show. I thought that was an interesting concept. 
 But mostly I just rolled my eyes and skimmed through the titled things. The capitalized term I got a kick out of the most was the "Naeming" or whatever, which even has an accent mark over the e. It's a ceremony where the commoner people get their official descriptive earthy name when they reach sixteen. Like why call it that though? Just call it the Naming ceremony or something. Why does it have to be all weird. 
 My next major issue was with the characters. We are told the story through the eyes of two characters, a young guy named Han Alistar, and a princess named Raisa. This narrative choice led me to believe this was going to be a love story of some sort, but I ending up disliking each of them enough that I didn't really care if they got together or not. 
 I'm assuming that Han is supposed to be our male hero, which is weird because I found him boring and unlikeable. Like why is he so flat and annoying? He's unsure and not-perceptive (even though he thinks he is). There was no quality in him that I wanted to support and watch him overcome obstacles. But since his wrists are adorned with unbreakable silver cuffs, I'm gonna assume that he turns out to be super special or something. Which is a shame because he's just a limp rag. I was much more interested in his friend, Fire Dancer, who showed bravery and strength even in the short time he was in the story. Although, I wouldn't even keep reading for him. 
 The other main character, our heroine Raisa, was even worse in my opinion. Like I have a headache just thinking about her. I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to empathize with her yet or not, but I definitely didn't. The traits she presented within the first hundred pages were that of a whiny, immature, self-serving, entitled brat. She is immediately brought into the story as a mildly "rebellious" princess that just wants to be free of responsibility. (Although she didn't even seem remotely rebellious in my opinion. Wearing a different type of pants than what you're supposed to doesn't automatically make you some brave vigilante.) 
 Also how many more times are we going to forced to see this trope before it finally ends? I'm tired. She doesn't even give a substantial reason why she so desperately wants to be free. Her thoughts include being annoyed that she has to be polite and mild-mannered and that she can't go horseback riding whenever she wants. Like really? Go fuck yourself. You're a princess and in line to be Queen. Like wait a little while and then you can make the rules and go romping wherever. She's not even limited to needing a man to rule for her. She is the heir to the throne no matter what she does. 
 In addition to this, she has the whole "I'm different from other girls" and "special snowflake" mentality that I just completely done with. Why do we, as a society, still filter this into women's heads? I read a quote once that talked about how when a boy tells you you're not like other girls, or you insist that you are so different from the rest of the female population, what you're really saying is "don't treat me the way you treat other women"- as disposable and expendable. Until you eliminate the idea that some girls deserve respect, and others don't, based on whatever factors (i.e. intelligence, liking makeup, wearing revealing clothing, being conventionally feminine, etc.) we will still be living in a harmful world where some women just "aren't worth respect" and are essentially fueling misogynistic behavior and thoughts, including rape culture. It's the same idea as social statements like "that's someone's daughter" or "that could be someone's sister" as a way to get sympathy for rape or assault victims, instead of just feeling sympathy and rallying support because she is a human being who deserves respect. This mentality brings us back to the idea that a women's relationship to a man is the only way in which she can be humanized. Within even the short portion I read from Raisa's perspective, she has already bashed a girl named Missy for being flirtatious towards a boy, referring to her in a manner that suggested she was dim-witted and vapid. All while Raisa was haphazardly hooking up that same boy regardless of his feelings as a person. Like hook up with whoever or how many people you want, but there needs to be respect there. He clearly has feelings for her and she seemed to just be using him as some sort of distraction from her super "hard" life and because a relationship with him was forbidden. 
 Unfortunately, I found the only interesting character to be this very boy she was using, Micah. He's part of a line of wizard royalty and showed genuine complexity and humanity that I could already relate to. I'm sad the story was not told from his perspective instead, which is unusual because I almost always prefer female narrators. 
 Bottom line, I found the portion of this book that I did read to be riddled with issues that I couldn't overlook. Sorry, friends.