So first of all, props to Ananna for having cool life goals (not being a wisp protag that just floats through life) and also for doing basically all the work in this partnership lmao. Yes, it's just as annoying when a male character is useless as it is when it's a female character, but I kinda admire the flipped script since I'm (sadly) used to saying this about the girls. (generic bland YA protagonist who can't do anything for themselves but it's a guy!)

Up until after the scene where the main characters are forced off their ship, I was kinda vibing with this book. It wasn't perfect, of course. Namely, 2 issues I had were that
1) Ananna was a pirate but sometimes the author wrote her like she wasn't? Occasionally she'd have lapses where she acted distinctly not pirate-like or didn't know/do something that you'd think pirates would know/do.
2) there was the whole enemies to lovers thing happening which was fine, but honestly I think Ananna started showing interest in Naji way too early and that tended to take away from her otherwise well-written character.

After that point though, the book went from 4 stars to 3. It just fell off...? I was expecting a cool climax and then there wasn't a climax at all. And it felt like we lost most of the positive character development between the two mains, not to mention both of them started making decisions that were dumb af.