>Daughter of the Bone Forest (book 1 in Witch Hall series)
It's somewhat entertaining, I'm surprised there are only 2 mentions of this book in the archives.

Setting is medieval, mostly at a school, with familiars who can transform into animals, and witches who bond with familiars to become stronger. The protagonist Rosy is a peasant familiar who is more powerful than her war hero grandparents, and the crown princess (a necromancer) wants to bond with her ahead of a looming war. But Rosy is a tsundere, and also doesn't want to go to war.

The book is easy to read and predictable, with a fun setting. The romance is slow paced, the relationships are emotional, the main couple never show interest in anyone else. I like that Rosy and the princess are strong minded. What I don't like is that the princess repeatedly claims she wants to understand Rosy (the only one she doesn't understand), but they never talk about their core disagreement to resolve it.

The book is unpolished and has a lot of flaws. Many of them are details not thought out properly, or characters behaving artificially, or contrivances. The world building is amateurish. Lesser characters are one dimensional NPCs. The author was one shot by the woke mind virus, so you'll see gender confusion of the highest order, obsession over pronouns (funnily the author used the wrong pronoun a few times), rural medieval villages with populations resembling a US university with many foreign students, oppression olympics, antinatalism, and other silliness, but it is easily ignored.

It's a respectable accomplishment for a first book. There will be a sequel in 2026.