I really enjoyed this. The worlding building is strong, the characters are interesting, and the writing is lovely. The book has several very different sections that change in tone and mood and I liked all of them and did not find the transitions jarring. The atmosphere of the woods and the magic system are cool and dreamy. I love fairy tales and this definitely captures that je ne sais quoi essence of those older stories. I love a headstrong girl trying to do things her own way, fight the system and stand by her own internal ethics and this delivered. <Spoiler>My biggest problem with the book is in the core relationship. It is not a Beauty and the Beast retelling per se but that is definitely one of the stories it draws from and it retains a lot of the problems of that tale. Despite the character growth shown by the love interest and despite his reluctance about the relationship, he is still a (much!) older man in a position of relative power who treated our protagognist extremely poorly early in the book. I honestly quite liked the relationship as it developed but it still left a sour taste in my mouth. This probably would have been a five star read from me otherwise.