Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher and author for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for a review! I also got a copy in my Fairyloot box in May with a very pretty pink cover and artwork on the reverse of the dust jacket! This was one of my most anticipated reads for this year so I had a lot of expectations placed on it, which is mostly my own fault, but i'm a little sad that I was a little disappointed with this book. For the first chunk it felt like it dragged too much, and I was a little bored and I didn't really feel anything for any of the characters, there was just no attachment to them for me. The second half, on the other hand was much better, I loved the twist (which I hadn't seen coming) and I liked the way it ramped up to be more action packed and interesting. I think overall the worldbuilding was also done very well, which helped with setting the story and making me want to know how it ended. As a fairytale it works very well, it follows the same basic structure and tone (though I can't pretend to be super knowledgeable about this, i'm just going off of experience in reading the odd one) and does a good job of it. The writing is pretty and descriptive and the book itself is wonderfully diverse. I love the inclusion of a f/f romance and I will forever be excited that LGBTQ book are getting hyped up and also getting included in book boxes. Overall, if the first half of the book had captured me just a little more, and if i'd felt more connection to the characters my rating would have been a 4/5 instead of a 3.5/5. But despite my own slight quarrel with the characters and the pacing, I still recommend this, especially to people who absolutely love fairytales because it very much has that vibe and we don't see all that many queer ones either, so this is a great addition to the genre.
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