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"We can't go around killing everybody, Alvin sweetest,' said the witch piously, 'for if we did, we'd have no subjects left." FINALLY a villain who realises you can't blow up the world!

wait hang on seadragoni maximi start small then grow enormous... TOOTHLESS!?!?!?

I find the whittling people's (Mud-Dwellers?) gender dynamics uncomfortable.

ok i'm enjoying the audiobook heaps, but why does the narrator give all the women lower voices than the men!?!?

sheesh this is true fey fairyland, all the modern oh-so-edgy-fey books, even Holly Black doesn't come near this! but cos it's disguised in fairytale language no-one remembers it...

this book is HILARIOUS and totally classic chicklit, can't believe it's from 1926

i was thinking it was odd Oscar Wilde was writing fairytales but I'd completely forgotten he wrote The Happy Prince! (which I really like)

ooh this one's actually better!

Why are the kea focussing so much on berries and not insects??

bugger i've forgotten who all the minor characters are - they all look too similar and i can't keep track of the colours! a dramatis personae list would be good

Hang on - 'Baba Yaga's Daughter' is just a gay retelling of a prince fairytale that I've come across in Andrew Lang fairy books! Let's have a YA novel adaptation please!

urgh the kids are so tweeeeee

ooh this is getting exciting!

There's a Broken Drum inn!

the Diviners! That's what it feels like.

This passage on the ghosts of america sounds an awful lot like (argh forgot the title!)