Four and a half stars. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about the end.

1. And then Shiny stood up for Oree and she got away from the Arameri, the end.
2. Oh, wait, it's not the end! Doteh came and took them prisoner, and she briefly freed Shiny to be Itempas. They killed the bad guy, the end.
3. Oree and Shiny fall in love and live happily ever after. The end.
4. Oh, wait, they don't, Shiny isn't allowed to be happy. Yeine and Nahadoth won't allow it. The end.

The book would have five stars if I wasn't so ambivalent at the end.

Of the four places she could have ended the book, well. I think it was Oscar Wilde who said that you can always have a happy ending if you just choose where to stop reading. ;) That said, the moral ambivalence of Yeine and Nahadoth is my least favorite stopping place. I disliked Oree "breaking up" with Shiny, and disliked how easy it was to send him away, too. Although, admittedly, I started wobbling around #3 but made the choice to go with it.

Argh. I don't know. I'm just... ambivalent.