When the Moon Hatched

I can't say I didn't like this book at all. I enjoyed some elements of it.

I had a lot of issues with the pacing, the randomly interspersed non-main character POVs (if they had been better places they would've been much more impactful).

The mystery relating to the main character seemed a bit too weak to be dragged on through Till the end of the book. If that was the main point of the narrative I'm not sure what the whole point was to begin with.

I know this is just the first book, but even first books offer some sort of closure to some threads from the opening. This book delivers on very few of those promises if any at all.

I feel like this book does have a lot going for it, but something somewhere was missing to make the magic work.

At the end of the book, I'm still soo confused about the world building. In my eyes it feels a bit half assed. Sure we are given a massive glossary at the beginning of the novel, but it's hard switching between the book and the glossary to understand what the words mean. There were several instances where the world building could've been integrated into the narrative itself, but it didn't happen.

I'm still so genuinely confused about the magic system, and the point of the dragons and a lot of things about the world. A lot of it feels very haphazard.

I'm not sure if I'll read book 2 whenever it comes out.