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-since she’s the eldritch being. But I also liked the sweet awkwardness of human + creature learning about humans. Which isn’t present in this story :/

DNFing bc I don’t like this one as much. The entire premise is different, & I don’t like the change from light eldritch setting to fairy tale curse. Plus Trillin & Sian haven’t been together much. Which greatly takes away from the romcom aspect. Also, Trillin hasn’t been included much at all, given she’s being mind controlled. This has given us time to learn more about Sian, but I liked Trillin more-

-isn’t true, & that you can break harmful generational or past cycles. You can become someone new & individual in a more peaceful way.

The evil queen entity wants to “help” the people of this universe by using Trillin’s regenerative body as a monster they can repeatedly slay. This doesn’t seem much different than the entity conjuring new monsters repeatedly? There’s a theme in here about “needing” to do gruesome, hurtful things in order to feel truly happy/connect with others. In the previous novella, Trillin established that this-

I like that this novella picked right up where the last one left off! There was some cute romcom stuff, & now we’re back into the magical action! They’re in a fairy tale realm, where an evil queen seems to be controlling everyone into playing our roles in stories. Similar to The Isle in the Silver Sea that I read this year.