It had an interesting context, but I was a bit confused as to how certain things played into the story, like the bugs and the need to sexualize the main character - considering her young age. While I understand that sexualizing a young girl is something that often happens, I'm not sure if it was really necessary for this story or even really added to it. It may have described the society a bit more, but I kind of felt gross reading about a young girl and that aspect of her life. It made it hard to continue.

I'm sorry to say that this book was less than satisfying. I was not able to make it very far into it due to the style of writing and the dialogue. I am intrigued as to what will happen, but because a lot of the story contradicts itself from one page to the next, it makes it hard to continue on with it.

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Just as an example, in chapter six the king says how he is too old to travel through the decay, but then the next page after his daughter decides to marry the man she knows nothing about he says that they'll have the guards ready to escort BOTH of them through the decay at once. There is a lot of contradiction and restating of previously said things, and it was very hard for me to continue with. Maybe in the future I'll try to pick it up again, but for now it was not the best quality style, it moved a little too fast, and the dialogue and the characters felt stiff and flat.