Maybe because I was listeing to the audiobook version but the very,very long descriptive and overwritten parts were losing me. I would be losing interest and come back and be thinking,"Wait, is this still talking about what her dress looks like or are we onto something else?" I got the impression that Lucretia is coded as autistic or Very Big Time ADHD (an official spectrum of ADHD) and that was interesting to me but at the same time I just did not care enough about her. Which is sad because we know she's in danger and that she's going to be unalived by this husband of hers. Is there a cat? Big ones. Lucretia's father has a menagerie with lions and a shortlived tiger.
If you like books where the thing that moves the plot along is main characters being chased by a threat, finding safety, then running from the threat, finiding safety,running from threat...lather, rinse, repeat...you'll love this. Especially if you like that part of the threat is a bad guy who really should be dead but just is so consumed with his purpose that he just keeps on living.
I went into it skeptical because I have come to hate gendered plagues in books that only wipe out women or men and there is no discussion of anyone outside the gender binary but that issue resolved itself for me. I didn't HATE this but it annoyed me more than it didn't. Plus The dog, who was kind of a hero and was holding the whole book up, is killed. It's terrible. This is the 1st book in a trilogy and it does not give you a satisfactory wrap-up at the end so would not work as a standalone. I know I won't read the other books after this so I went to wikipedia and read the plot summaries and now I can move on with my life. But 1st I need to watch the movie adaptation which has Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley as the teenage main characters. So fun.
This is one of those books that the people who need to read it probably won't. Has all the information you might need to affirm your own belief in basic income being a neccesary thing in our world. This book could have been condensed into half the length to be honest. There were times I thought I was re-reading the same few sentences over and over again. I was not. There's just a lot of data and points reiterated frequently.