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Y'all I'm having too much fun with this. Also, man, the IMAGERY in the writing! UGH. Killing me.

It's still getting weirder, somehow.
Also find it funny how many different fairytales are both implicitly and explicitly referenced in this. Some of it feels a little on the nose, but ah well.
Still not sure if I like it, but the writing is growing on me at least.

This is.... Weird? I don't know if I like it, but I don't hate it either? The writing is really pretty, perhaps a tad overdone, but pretty nonetheless. Not much has really happened so far yet though, and I don't know much about the characters either, despite the –overly– descriptive writing.

Guess we'll see how the rest of this goes!

Listening to this as an audiobook, and even though the narrator is good, the book is just kinda "meh" so far, hoping it gets better as we go.
Also have a prediction for the ending already, we'll see if it ends up correct or not. Half-hoping it won't be that predictable...

Honestly, I've been so surprised by this book and not in a good way. It's taken me so long to get through, and at this point I'm honestly just reading it because I don't have a good excuse not to finish it??? I don't really know what it is, but I don't like it very much. Such a shame, because it's rated highly and it really is gorgeous, especially the special edition that I got....

I will never get over fantasy/medieval stories where a 17 year old is trusted with the life of people/fate of the world/horrible secret. It's just really funny to me.

The first chunk after the mediocre intro/frame-thing is fun, slow paced, and interesting. Now I'm mostly annoyed and trying to remind myself that the character is like 16 right now and that her behaving in some ridiculous ways makes sense for that age but MAN that's why I don't read YA. Hopefully it gets better as she ages out of it. Still got half the book left to go.

Neat so far.
It's got a "frame story", which I put in quotations because the frame feels like afterthought, only a few pages at the beginning so far, written in a very different tone with stilted German scattered throughout. I almost wish they'd left it out, I think it would have been a much better beginning treated just entirely like a faux memoir without the frame OR with a better frame that reappears in between.