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at about the 25% mark, this swings from an adventure, character based tale to a YA mess. And the question is raised with some ferocity: why would someone being trained in the art of seduction and feminine wiles look to a 22 year old dude for wisdom? And who would not equally equip her in the manipulation of getting OUT of situation she courted?

At issue #2: Never Land (er, Shenandoah) seems to have been modeled on the ABC series Once Upon a Time. Shaffer's expository writing is next level cringe. STICK WITH CHARACTERS, FFS.

Where the LADY MISOGYNY tag got added. Sigh. How is it that so many of these books start good and go into a slow downward spiral like this.

OMG self pity is *so sexy.* And really interesting to slog through as a reader.

This book is growing regrettably worse over the course of its span. Sigh.

Yikes, takes a gigantic weird twist in the last fifth. Not a delight.

Holey moley. This is an ode to teaching young adults.

One of these won some big award, so I skipped ahead thinking it was this one. If so, then it was unwarranted. What read like world/character building in the first two installments, has calcified into a rote series of descriptors re: mechanical workings and fight scenes. BLERG.

Trying to decide if I have the patience for yet another insecure self-pitying SPECIAL ONE in-the-making. Will maybe go back to Emily Tesh for a moment, as her story-craft seems less totally derivative.