3.5/5? Some parts were solid fours and others weren't so yeah... 
 I enjoyed this one much more than Glass Sword. I loved having Maven back in the story, and the Calore brothers are my faves. This book switches POVs and I felt like this worked for my own personal enjoyment, but I also feel like maybe the switches should have happened more often. I also enjoyed how we get to learn more about Maven, Evangeline, etc. Also, I want a book about Julian or from his POV. We get some snippets of his writing in here and that was nice. Sometimes the writing is really repetitive, and I would read fifty pages and realize not a lot happened (this was the case for the first 200 pages anyway). Overall, I did like this book and I am really curious as to how this series is going to end.