Status Updates From Echo North (Echo North, #1)

Also after Wolf tells her not to light the lamp, she's instantly tempted as soon as she hears a noise outside even though she knows not to, and keeps reminding herself it's dangerous. But she has zero spine and is so tempted, which is dumb, bc you're not gonna see anything so what's the point?? They're on the other side of the door, light wouldn't reveal anything. She's such a stupid, boring MC.

Another example of bad writing: it doesn't show or tell the stepmom being the stereotypical evil stepmom, unless you count being fake and petty which isn't evil. Just immature. It's hard to believe she hates her life sm, or is so willing to run away, bc of Donia.

the writing itself is just so mid.
p76:
"'Echo?' His voice was strange and slurred with sleep."
p77:
"What I'd thought was sleep I realized was an accent, a weird emphasis on his i's and a's."
..."echo" has neither I nor A in it, so how would she initially think it was sleep slurring his voice 😑 I hate small stupid mistakes like this, totally ruins the reading experience for me.

The prose in this book is so stuuuupidddd

So good!!!

Rereading this in its proper season, since I first read it in summer and this book screams winter. Also, I want a book mirror library. That is all.

Wintery re-read let's gooo