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3.69 AVERAGE

dark fast-paced

i might need to reread this in text form because like 65% of the audiobook i was… confused 
challenging dark emotional

Docked a star bc I’m reading it physical in bed and I ideally needed a dictionary for every page. Loved the vibes tho 

It's as if somebody gave Rob Zombie a thesaurus.

jumping_jerboa's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 23%

reads more like the author wanted to show off prose than to tell a story, I'm bored
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

“For all that humanity professes to delighting in its sophistication, it longs for simplicity, for when the world can be deboned into binaries: darkness and light, death and life, hunter and hunted.”

A dark fairytale with some connections to legendary lore and other classics (sirens, Little Mermaid). This world, the landscape and violence, is written so vividly. I loved the two main characters and their journey, their connection, their love. Also been a while since I’ve had to look up a new vocab word on nearly every page (moiety; wizened; bucolic). 
dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Just saw someone describe reading this book as like being placed in a dream and that is exactly what this felt like.

At times I wished the middle portion of the novella was a bit more fleshed out, but this added to more of the dream-like state. Also, sometimes the author went a little crazy with the vocab. However, the ending was actually INCREDIBLE.

I was really in-between giving this 4 and 5 stars. But the ending was so beautiful and the whole vibe of the story was so interesting that I can’t help but give this 5 stars. Please I NEED a full novel version of this.