Extreme slow burn, this one took me awhile to get into but at the halfway mark something clicked and I was full tilt. Even with a slow start, extremely rich folklore details, excellent Easter eggs of different cultures and their stories. Will be reading the second in this duology!
This was a good alien adventure! For once there is not a romance between captive and captor, rather a hand in hand escape plan. TWS for attempted SA and also animal death as well
This was an absolute flop for me, in theory ALOT of the things I want out of a book, but the over exaggerated witchy tropes, then lack of chemistry building, and the timelines were confusing. Didn’t slap ☹️
What a heavy hitter of a genuine high-fantasy. This has everything but the usual heavy handed gore you find with any fantasy that leans Tolkien-esque, but I feel as though this worked in its favor. For anyone positively sick of fantasy epics that are following European fairytale themes, look no more, this is it.