A review by gabalodon
Night Shine by Tessa Gratton

5.0

This was a fascinating, meticulously detailed, very different story. Kind of a conglomoration of Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Beauty & the Beast, but ultimately telling a very different fairy tale about friendship, identity, occupying unsettling, liminal spaces, and challenging the binary. At times I felt like I wasn't quite connecting with the characters and occasionally couldn't track the narrative logic, but most of the time (especially as the story progressed) I was so invested and the ending was executed incredibly well.