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Interesting, but not entirely substantiated scholarship— still, definitely worth the read and fascinating 🧚🍁💀not for the weak-stomached scholar, that‘s for sure

Finally picking this one up! Dearly hoping it lives up to the hype even a little…

I'm a bit more than halfway through this but it isn't grabbing me. TBH I find it weird when European mythical creatures are transposed onto American soil. The protagonist is 16 years old and that seems to be the target audience. Slow going but not terrible. Megan does tend to jump into situations that have me going 'Stop and think!' but, hey, she's 16 🤗

Did not finish book. Stopped at 63%.
This just isn‘t picking up for me. I had some issues with book 1 but thought maybe the story could progress in a way that interested me but I‘m finding myself bored and over it with the MCs‘ inability to communicate Basic information to eachother.

I thought this was a fun and unique spin on how the story of Sleeping Beauty came about. It did have a bit of a slow start but it definitely picked up. I would give it 3 stars.

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I‘m not sure whether I liked this book or not, but it made a deep impression, regardless. The writing is really powerful, the imagery vivid, the characters strong. The story is a dark fable with a touch of horror, like all fairy tales really, that leans on Welsh traditions and sets the real world against the imagined. Or IS IT? Somehow slow winding and fast paced at once, with a great ending. I‘d recommend.

4.5 ⭐ You know that feeling when you have waited too long to read a really good book. I‘m living that now. I‘ve had Thornhedge since it came out and I already know I love T. Kingfisher. But no, I waited on this. The story that this woman can put in 111 pages. It‘s sweet, it‘s uplifting, it‘s happy, it‘s fascinating. Let the adjectives continue. This is a sleeping beauty retelling that imagines a different villain and a different reason

Ugh!!!!

Why???

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Pub Day is 11 February