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This book and I had a complicated relationship. I originally started it and came very close to bailing...I was standing at my library's drop box ready to give up...and I just couldn't. So I started the book again, and I found that I actually enjoyed it. The writing style takes a little bit to get used to, and the world isn't explained as much as I would like, but I'm glad I didn't give up on it.

'They loved the hope of having immortal children more than they loved your bones between their teeth.'

A story about fairies who live forever but get eaten on the regular by gnomes... Really violent and different than what I'm use too. It's got an unreliable narrator because it's a book being written in a book. Beckan is the girl who the book inside the book is being written about and I didn't know what had actually happened and what didn't. It was odd... Not really a super happy ending, kind of, I liked the fairy tale element I guess.

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Really, the only good thing about this book is the cover. Beautiful, right? That's what sucked me in. Silly girl. That old adage exists for a reason 'cause this book's terrible. At least the first 129 pages are. I very rarely bail on a book, but I just couldn't take another paragraph. I'll keep it on my shelf, though, 'cause it sure is pretty!!

I'm trying hard not to bail on this. Has anyone read it? I'm on page 129. Is it worth sticking it out? 🤔

I have a really hard time not finishing a book, but if this hadn't been my book club's pick, I wouldn't have finished it. It was really...weird. And not weird in a good way. Along with being weird it was pretty boring and hard to follow. The last 20% was better but didn't make up for it overall.

This book was dark and hard and cruel and beautiful, and it hurt my heart to read. I loved the crap out of it.

I picked this book up because of the @bookriot deals email. I have no clue what it's about. Let's do this.

Holy wow, this book: the layering of time, the interweaving of narrative, and over it all the brutality of war.

Red carpet fashion meets cover design!

This book is weird and wonderful in all the right ways. It's dark and sort of horrible and so fucking good.