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Cartoon villain, cartoon dialogue.

This book still sucks, but I had some time to read yesterday.

I groaned when upon finishing reading the textbook, the protagonist picked up *another* book and read it in its entirety, padding things out even more, but I changed my mind partway in, because that book turned out to be a short story that was much more of an actual *story* than the rest of this book. It had characters with motivations, a plot, a conflict, and a resolution. More like this, please.

There have been several glimpses of the ghost sister and her werewolf lover/protector, and I really wish the story was about them instead of about the political ambitions of this evil poisoner.

The plot of this book is "Psychopathic poison-freak main character murders or tries to murder all of the likeable characters".

She asks the cook about a jar of dried leaves in the kitchen cupboard, and the cook says, oh, that's poison, so I keep it in the back of the cupboard so people don't use it for cooking. It's never explained why she has it in the kitchen at all!