I have some very mixed feelings about this book. And I think part of it may because this book didn’t end so much as stop in the middle (and honestly the first real plot development in a long time). I wonder if I might feel different if I am able to read the rest of it. I do like that there is a diverse cast of characters. I found it very interesting that there is a gender fluid person who literally changes shape to reflect the gender that fits in the moment. It was very, very interesting. I was a little confused by the monster with tentacles that thought of herself as female and was often called female by strangers but was dubbed male by one of the other main characters and let them correct everyone who tried to use female pronouns. I understand why some people were upset that the giant black man was falsely accused of a crime and treated extremely poorly. I’m struggling with deciding if this shows the author’s racist thoughts or if this was the author giving her main characters barriers in a poorly thought out way. I do like that every main character was queer, I’ve never read a fantasy adventure where that was the case….I wanted to like it much more than I did. Right now I’m not sure if I’ll read the second part or not. There was a lot of potential here and I find myself wishing it had come together better.