Warning: This is not an mm romance, this is not even a bromance. Just two guys forced to work together.

Never mind the overwhelming amount of species, in the end they all sound like drones. At 45% I feel like nothing is happening. The story is too slow with too many unnecessary info dumps. ( )

An archipelago kingdom, the inhabitants are chimeras with humanoid (elven by the illustrations ?) upper bodies and animal-like lower legs and feet. The chimeras of predator species (and foremost among them the griffin chimeras) have established a ruthless social order that they dominate, though they are in turn subservient to a religion that worships wyverns as local gods. In a bid to escape his backwater birthplace with the woman he loves but was forbidden to marry, the protagonist entered the service of the priesthood some years ago. His life takes a turn as he is promoted to chief of police, only to find that most of his predecessors seemed to have trouble surviving even a year after they took on the job. And the very dangerous High Priestess Morchella may have taken a bit too much of a shine for him...

Good, but despite the very nice watercolor illustrations or other LT users' tags probably not a children's or very young teens' book.
One of the major characters has gone through very dark times. The reminiscing isn't graphic but some topics are raised that not everyone might want to see in their younger children's reading. ( )