Not sure how to feel about this book. It was good and was written well and yet something didn’t truly grab me and sink me in. The world building and the descriptions of each world was amazing but there was a lot of it. I think the first chapter was also very hard to understand from anyone who doesn’t have a lot of background knowledge of Greek myths because the names threw me off instantly and I had to try adjust.I also struggled to reconcile what I felt was a powerful female character, Deina, with her primary love interest, Theron. When we first meet them, they have a heated exchange because she has bribed an officer to conduct the Punishment Rites instead of Theron. In retaliation, he insults her as weak for being a woman (despite the fact she's won against him in mini-competitions before), rips apart her entire room and steals what valuables she has that he can find. When she confronts him, he doesn't refute the sexist and misogynistic remarks the other male Soul Severers make about her selling her body to conduct the Punishment Rites.