World building is good, character development is not terrible but the FMC is mid throughout. Spice was good when it finally hits.

The book ended so abruptly that it really pissed me off. All that work and words spent world building and then nothing when it starts to really get good plot-wise? UGH. I was going to read the second book anyway to find out what happens to the other female humans and the over-arching plot. There was honestly no need to cut it off like that. It was actually insulting and cheap AF.

Spice: 3/5 not super descriptive or noteworthy but a fine climax to the angst and tension.