It's very rare that I feel any desire to write fan fic but this book makes me want to fix it so bad. The writing is occasionally awkward but not bad, the plot is interesting, the characters are compelling. My biggest issue with it is the editing. 

I kept checking throughout the first few chapters to make sure this was the first novel in the series because it feels like a sequel. and the more I read, the less I understood why it wasn't a sequel. 

It forces the writer into these awkward info dumps and the novel suffers from telling, not showing. We should understand the complex relationship between the queen and the sisters, and the complicated feelings they have about their roles because we should've been there. A tween runs off, gets powers, plucks a girl from a farm who happens to be queen, and wins a war against an empire with dragons and ALL of that is treated like footnotes? That's honestly an insane choice. Had the story started there in a stand alone book, I think this novel could've done a much tighter job of pacing and storytelling. 

It's still good, but it has so much more potential and I wish it would've been given time to develop fully