So I just finished reading Children of Blood and Bone.

This is not a good book. Its not horrifyingly terrible like Atlas Shrugged or Left Behind or some other titles I could mention but will not because of good taste, but its not good either. It really really needed another round or two of editing before getting published. As it stands, the world building is foggy, the relationships are not convincing, and what I can only take as the author's attempts at moral ambiguity just end up confusing a story that was inspired by the outrage of real world police brutality against black people and thus does not merit or benefit from having characters going back and forth in the span of a single chapter about whether or not they really should bring back magic or not.

All in all, a 2.5 star book, and that last half a star is mostly because of the way that the enemies-to-lovers romance ends up crashing and burning for all the exact reasons that you think it would that empty passion could not overcome.