Plot wise, this is not a *bad* book. But I've had to rate it 2 stars as, honestly, for a whole lot of this book I was just bored. 
 My thoughts - for quite a while - when I first started reading this was: Boring and hard to read. Seriously, the language and the way this book was written... ugh. Not enjoyable (the metaphors, O daughters, the metaphors). It is full of absolutely nonsense metaphors, repetition, and purple prose galore. I've seen people describe this as uniquely beautiful, so to each their own I guess, but I found it unnecessarily long winded, slow, boring, nonsensical and drastically detracting from the actual plot, which was buried somewhere deep underneath all the purple prose. 
 But I will say, this book does get better as it goes along. Very slowly, but still. It's kind of too little too late - honestly, if I'd checked this out of the library or borrowed it, I would have DNF'd. I only persevered because I bought it and I didn't want my hard earned money to go to waste. So the first half or so was just an absolute chore to get through. The next 20-30% had this weird effect on me where, when I wasn't reading the book, my mind would wander to it and I would find myself thinking that I actually quite liked it. But then I would pick it up to try to actually read it, and I still just did not enjoy reading it at all. Which was annoying. Then finally, the last 25% maybe, I finally started to enjoy myself a bit. 
 The purple prose is laid on SUPER thick at the beginning, but by the end this has lessened to quite an extent and the actual plot is able to finally shine through. Unfortunately, the plot itself is just kind of ok for me, but it did leave me wanting to know what happened next. (Just briefly, the plot is this by the way: 
 In a world with 3 suns, where real nights are years apart, 16 year old Mia Corvere is a Darkin, which means she can control and talk to the shadows. She is also out for revenge, against the people who executed her father and tore her family apart. After spending the last 6 years in training, she's now on her way to the Red Church, a school that trains the deadliest assassins in the world. So yeah.) 
 Thankfully, it looks like the second book in this series - Godsgrave - is quite a bit shorter than this one, which I can only hope means the writing is more to the point... I *may* even try reading a little of the beginning when it come out. Only if it's at the library though - I won't make the mistake of buying it again.