2,5 stars. This was really disappointing. The writing was hard to get into, but really made it read as a translated text from a far off land, so I'll give it points for that. Getting into this book, I thought it was going to be about a poor slave girl overthrowing the patriarchal society. Boy was I wrong. The main character Hekat, is objectively the villain. She's abusive, manipulative and selfish, and nothing in her backstory made me care for her as she progressed. The last fifty or so pages were really weird. It suddenly siften POV and completely changed. It was weird, and seems like set up for a sequel. I don't know if I'll pick up the sequel anytime soon or ever.