I truly believe that this book was such a success and I loved it almost as much Ella Enchanted.
Ella is still by far my favorite of the heroines that she has written about (I feel like she is the perfect mix of smart and defiant yet kind) but Aza is a very very close second.

My only gripe with this book was that I really didn't like the being stuck in the mirror scenes, that felt a little disconnected from the rest of the flow of the book, and I also didn't like that Ijori did not believe her when she was trying to prove her innocence. I know in the end he redeemed himself, but in that moment he did not make a very loveable character.

This book was so much of the charm of classic fairytale reimagined that Ella had that it really was such a joy to read. This was part Snow White, part Ariel/Ursula dynamic, with a splash of Coraline that I really can't find faults other than the mentioned above.

Overall this was second best of her works that I've read and I will totally be continuing on to read more of her stories because after all: "if you love a thing, one more is always welcome."