*BOOK PURGATORY 25%* 
 I was pretty excited for this book, but alas.... 
 The good: 
 -LGBT characters 
 The Not-So-Good: 
 -Everything else, including but not limited to: 
 -The actual charcters. They were nearly all flat and boring. And one-dimensional. Mare = Rebellious. Denna = Sweet and girly. 
 -The plot. It was really boring, especially for the fantasy adventure everyone was promised. About 100 pages in and still just about nothing has happened. 
 -The world-building. Nearly nonexistent. The religion is developed enough, but the author just drops the readers in the middle of some city with no idea about the place. 
 *Of course, this review is just for the first quarter of the book, I don't know anything about how the rest of the book is*