“Humanity is how you act, my lady. Not how you were Made.”

Crier’s War is the first book in a sapphic duology about a human and an Automa. Automae were made for humans until the War of Kinds where humans lost against the Automae. Humans now suffer under Automae rule and one girl, Ayla, craves to avenge her family’s death. Ayla works at the Sovereign’s House and suddenly becomes handmaiden to Lady Crier, the Sovereign’s Daughter. Ayla is now closer than ever to getting her revenge and Crier discovers secrets that might change her, and Ayla’s, life forever.

Crier’s war had everything I wanted in a book: sapphics, enemies to lovers, and political intrigue. This was a pretty decent first book but I think I expected too much from it, though, because it had the elements that would make me enjoy a book. Unfortunately, this book felt a little weak to me in terms of execution. It was around the second half where I started to enjoy the book. There was very little humor and that saddens me so much. I expected no humor from the Automae but not from the humans. I did like the slow burn romance between Crier and Ayla, I just hope there’s more spark between them in the next one.

I will still read the next book because this one ended in a cliffhanger!!!! I need to know what happens next, not just between Ayla and Crier, but for the fate of humanity and Automae.