A review by oashackelford
Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater

5.0

Euphemia Reeves has always been a maid, and she has no problem with hard work. She does have a problem with being mistreated, however, and she and the other household staff have been mistreated for far too long. So when a faerie shows up in the manor she is cautious, her mother always warned her not to make any deals with faeries, but she can't help herself. She makes a deal. If she can marry the man she loves in one hundred days, then she only owes the faerie some embroidery stitches, but if she can't convince her love that she is a lady and get married, then she will have to go back to the land of faerie and be his maid forever.


I have really been enjoying her regency fairy tales. I feel like they are so well thought out, and they don't seem to be related to any fairy tales that I already know, so it is harder to predict the endings, which I like. I feel like I have been reading mysteries for too long, and so I read this book as a sort of pallet cleanser, and I found myself really enjoying the tale and this world that Atwater has built. I am so excited to read the third installment.

Another thing that I like about it is that each tale is separate from the other tales, so you do not have to read them in order to enjoy them. There is a part of me that wishes that she would write these forever, but I am also happy to have the ones that she has already written.