Okay, so in short, I found this really boring.
That's harsh but its the truth and before going into the reasons why, that's my overall feeling for the book: it was incredibly boring.
From the start its just endless dialogue and description and worldbuilding that doesn't actually really explain anything. I found it tiresome.

Imani is a warrior of some kind and her brother was a warrior of some kind goes missing for a while. They realise that he did not go missing but was in fact taken or ran off - im not sure which - because their leaders were lying to them about what's going on outside of their country. Considering Im not entirely sure what is going on inside their country, it really didn't mean much.
Imani manages to get a genie of some kind which is bad for reasons unclear. She hangs around a boy she thinks hates her, when its clear if she'd ever read any fantasy book would know that this means thats her soulmate.
The dialogue was repetitive throughout which characters hashing out things we've already discussed. Just endless talking with minimal action that I just did not care about at any point. 
I finally gave in when there was a whole scene and description and back and forth about her horse dying just so she'd be forced to be on the same horse as the boy who hates/loves her.
I'm over it