Fairly well-written, my gripe is mainly with the story structure. It felt really top-heavy, Aria's early years were trodden in almost excessive detail, and her later years felt glossed over.

The structure felt misleading, I felt the relationship between Mehri and Aria was poorly developed and we never really got a focus on how Aria's relationship with mother figures in her life affected her as she became a mother. Which isn't like... necessary but it felt like the book was advertised in that way and definitely did not deliver. I know this is a bit juvenile but the way Mitra was portrayed as this mindless ditzy girl and Aria the cool outspoken one who gets the guy was obnoxious to me sorry.... I'm a girl's girl...

All in all, I felt the development of the characters in the second half of the book were weak and certain plot points that I personally disliked made this a 2.5 for me.