Black Sun

uncertain 3.5 rounded up.

I'm not sure why I didn't enjoy this book more, it has so many elements that are interesting and characters I sould have just loved, maybe I wasn't in the right headspace for it.
That being said, I really struggled to get invested or more exactly to stay invested in the story and the world building seemed lackluster to me after the first half of the book.

For the aces in the room: one of the MCs is very keen on the spicy stuff (by which I don't mean food though she does enjoy that type of spicy too as far as I can tell) in the most adorable way (at least I found it cute). But the actual spicy stuff wasn't over the top or heavy, it's implied or talked about after the fact without details mostly and there's one pretty tame scene.