This was great. This was a Cinderella retelling in a fantasy world inspired by Persian mythology. There's cool jinn powers and ice magic and dragons and devils and curses and prophecies. The characters - Alizeh, a long long queen of the jinn turned servant and Kamran, an honorable prince - jumped off the page and were both super fun to root for. And the love story was so good (though it was basically love at first sight).

This was good, but felt a little "middle book"-y. And while I totally eat up relationships with the same dynamics of Cyrus and Alizeh, the execution here was a big clumsy. They went from enemies to confessing their feelings in like 3 days. It was also obvious from the very beginning of the book that he was a misunderstood bad boy who was going to have a redemption arc. I'm still interested in the series, and am fine with the love triangle development, but I wish it had been done better and had been dragged out a bit more.

This was fine, but also nothing happened! This series could be 3 books if they would get on with it. I don't know if I'll continue.

This series is fine - there's just enough here that I want to continue and see how it all plays out. But even though I like the additional characters like Cyrus, the story peaked with book 1. There just isn't a lot that happens in each book. Same with this book - the whole thing revolved around a couple of big moments, and the rest was just the characters vibing and recapping previous moments from other books to each other.