Descendant of the Crane

okay so this book is a political fantasy. I didn't know that going in or else I would've never picked up the book. Now I could go on and on about how the story was just one surprise after another with barely any breathing room, or frankly any explanation, but this book has already caused a reading slump so I'll just sum the plot up:

-Something unexpected happens

-Hesina: I'm confused

-Someone random casually infodumps about how it was done and calculated

-Hesina: I should've seen this coming!

That's it.
That is the whole book.

I have to say, the twists the book took were very surprising and could've been done well if things were different. But as for world building and characters...I don't think I'll remember anyone's name by the end of today. Which is another point: what the hell is a sooth? I get that they can do magic and shit, but their magic is never explained and the descriptions are not descriptive at all. In fact, they're extremely vague and this description problem can be applied to literally any fight scenes. In fact, I would just skim the fight scenes and move on because what happened would be explained better in conversation afterwards anyway.

-sigh-I'm tired so tl;dr a political fantasy with so many plot twists I got vertigo and am now just confused