Sarah Brown

The epic fantasy stuff with the draug and the god-king was honestly kind of boring but the more slice of life stuff about extremely different people learning to live together was great.

Cute and fun, with a surprisingly deep message.

Some of the background characters are pretty stereotypical (the desert kingdom is pretty cringy, and the way the Russian character is written) but overall this story was fun.

I wish this had been a contemporary instead. I really liked the parts about the main character's pressures as a child of immigrants but I thought the mystery was kind of goofy.

Starts out a little slow, but the second half swings for the fences. I really liked this.