I'm actually quite sad about this. I loved the idea of this book, I love the idea of three queens having to fight eachother. I love the powers and the magic they're supposed to have. 
 Sadly, it felt flat for me. 
 I didn't really like/love the characters. The three queens were not so interesting. I liked Katharine and Arsinoe, but find Mirabella annoying. And the side characters were just meh (except that I truly hate, we'll come to that soon enough) 
 The romances take a huge place of the story, and most of them were just stupid. First we have insta-love (twice), and I just can't, it's just lazy writing in my opinion and I couldn't support these couples because I just didn't understand why they were even together, less in love. 
 Then we have the oh-so-painful love-triangle. I do not hate love-triangles as much as I hate insta-love. In fact, if it's well-written I don't mind. But this one... God this one was : 1. stupid and 2. awful. Plus, one side of the love-triangle was insta-love. I'm sorry but I just hated it, and it took an important part of the story, and I couldn't even enjoy the story anymore.. And, Joseph is an asshole, I'm sorry but he really is, and I don't want to read about that kind of characters, so can he just die in the next book so I can enjoy it? 
 I will be reading the next book, just because I think it can improve but please change those things, so I can finally enjoy the plot.