Guardians of Dawn: Zhara

Guardians of Dawn: Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, 1) by S. Jae-Jones

Zhara is a bright, light fantasy book. There is a character that loves to read romance books. The book becomes involved in some plot twists. This society had some big war and one side is power and strives to hide books to keep from unifying others. Books hold some special secrets. Gender can be a bit confusing. He and she are used together with "they", but it may change for a character as they become gendered. There was an introductory note about it. In spoken Chinese he and she are pronounced the same. Is Korean something like that. Did some googling, and it seems that Korean doesn't often use the gendered pronouns, so that does make sense. The book felt fairly good as far as fantasy goes, but I did get a bit lost as it kept going on. It would be great if fantasy writers could write short. This one seemed to have potential.