A review by anniesbooks
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

3.5

I liked this book well enough I just wanted a little more from it. I wanted a lot more romance and maybe more explicit scenes since this is an adult novel. And the main characters were miscommunicating almost the entire length of the novel which is a pet peeve of mine - if characters in their mid twenties don’t know how to talk to each other properly it’s just sad I don’t know. Speaking of which they both did not read like they were mid twenty but like teenagers I was bummed about that. 

To me the writing style was very hard to read for some reason making it very slow. I can’t really explain why exactly.

And lastly I felt I was dropped into politics that never truly made sense to me. The first 50 pages I was just confused and a bit annoyed. But I never felt like the political situation was explained well and the hierarchy/ treaty/ resolution business made zero sense to me. 

Trigger warning: very explicit abusive relationship references (acted out memories/ flashbacks) and a victim blaming himself