The beginning of the book really reminded me of Seraphina, the world building happens organically as part of the story but the initial chapters can feel alternately super interesting and super confusing. It took me a while to understand that one character was an android and that meant all robotic, and one is a cyborg which is part robotic and part human. I found the setting really clever, and is also why I'm tagging it as "asian". I called the "twist" on page 36 of the ebook (whatever that corresponds to), but I don't know that it actually counts as a twist if it gets telegraphed so blatantly. I did feel a little less motivated to read it near the middle/end as I realized from reading the synopsis of the sequel books (which I'm glad are mostly published at this point!) that the first book probably wouldn't tell a complete story. Not that I wasn't interested anymore, I just sometimes start to feel sad that I won't get a conclusion at the end of the book and things will be left unresolved. I'm looking forward to reading Scarlet.