I quit when the author, to indicate that someone was eating, wrote out "Nom nom nommmmm" as dialogue. Egregious. I can overlook things like "Ha ha ha," he laughed," but nom? No. This is not well written. The plot is scattered. There are a ton of characters introduced and little to no indication of which ones are important. I couldn't keep going.

I really enjoyed the alternate history elements to this book. The concept was wonderfully done and I really enjoyed the overall feel of the world and characters. It had the elements that I was looking for and enjoyed the Greco-Roman elements perfectly. Asvoria K. has a great writing style and glad I got to read this.

I really really wanted to like this book but I ended up DNFing at around 10%. This story and idea probably had the potential to be good, but it needed some /serious/ editing. In the form that it was, I found it basically unreadable. I had no idea what was going on and I didn't really care to find out because the book was just riddled with grammatical errors and illogical sentences. Before publishing, I would seriously recommend some revision in order for this book to be widely readable.

I wrote this review as a friend of the author. I’m glad to put this up for her debut.

The story is well written, with prose that is straightforward and easy to understand.

The main character set out on a quest for revenge, accompanied by a diverse group of companions. The constant time-jumping and shifting of memories among different characters in the story creates a somewhat confusing narrative. Not all chapters have been edited to the same standard as others.

The main theme of the story revolves around the concept of eugenics, but the ending presents a surprising twist that explores an opposite extreme of eugenics, as the sub-title of the chapter suggested: The Year Zero, an idea in reference to Khmer Rouge massacre of elites.

The romance(s) plot mainly focuses on one of the side character. I wasn’t fond of romance, but this story involves the classic “love at first sight” trope but it’s sapphic.

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Overall, this book is fun to read. My favourite part is when Petosiris the oracle, tried to use the hermetic idea of “as above, so below” to explain quantum entanglement. This truly had enlightened me with a well written ending.