I was greatly looking forward to reading this book, but found it wasn’t quite my cup of tea after all. Terms like “she has not yet bled” and a “woman’s moon time” are more primitive, but then characters know and use “sexism” and “tokenism” and refer to serotonin, dopamine, and testosterone, ideas that wouldn’t have been understood in a modern way. She comes across some dark fae right, and it just so happens that they’re also POC like Nox (because they all have bronze skin in that part of the country, apparently), and their fucking powers are due to NIGHT LIFE (and Nox is now a lady and a creature of the night) and they have nocturnal eyes and like…? Himself” here is incorrect because it’s a reflexive pronoun, a pronoun that refers to the subject of the sentence. the story lacked structure all around, and theres absolutely no intrigue except to just see if the book gets better (hint: it doesn’t).

There may not be a lot of people leaving reviews at this point, but there are a lot of people watching this mess unfold and continue to unfold. Not only does she NOT address what happened apart from some vague statements, but she also mashes it together with when she responded to a comment about her book being YA and not NA. Nevertheless, my initial problem with Piper CJ was her bullying towards others, so it would make no sense for me to condone anyone that engages in similar behaviour.Anyway, she succeeds in getting the guard to try and sleep with her and sucks his soul out and then proceeds to castrate him by depriving his balls of oxygen. She is such an anomaly that they don't want to mar her perfect skin because they want to get the most money possible for her. After witnessing the behaviour from both the author and the editor towards readers critiquing this book, I will not be reading this and I strongly urge you to do the same.

I came out shortly before Piper did and this is the first book I’ve picked up knowing there would be bi representation depicted by a bi person. okay I had to stop reading this book and just read spoilers because it was honestly so bad, I won’t even be adding it to my 2022 reads because I just don’t think I can.kaer morhen is a fortress set in the mountains where the Witchers are trained and taught to kill monsters and protect the realm. There were a few and although they weren’t all explicit, they were all deeply unsettling and I don’t recommend this book at all if sexual assault is something that triggers you. It does primarily follow the story of two main protagonists, but it’s a 3rd-person-omniscient POV that switches between all primary and secondary characters’ heads at random points in the text. Your actions are only adding fuel to the fire around this situation and are in no way helping, especially the author.