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Why are we still at the castle? Please tell me they leave before part 1 is over.

What is the line between poetic and pornographic? Reading from Elm’s perspective makes me feel gross. Elm and Ione’s banter is cringe. Why am I still reading this?

Ugh. Why are all the men in this book so damn disgusting? Except the nightmare, he’s the only one I can stand. Probably because he’s always the smartest guy in the room. And he’s the only one who can go five minutes without fantasizing about lips or hair or boobs.

I see whimsy and humor, but no steampunk yet.

I think I’ll read this next Christmas.🎄

Wouldn’t it be funny if Johann was married already?

A female lead who doesn’t take the prince’s spotlight? Who doesn’t make his life harder by being ornery and contrary at every opportunity? Who doesn’t take forever to figure out what’s going on? Clara, where have you been all my life?

Look, it’s not like I’m saying I need Johann to be a jerk or anything. I just need Clara to deem him to be boring in comparison to the Nutcracker Prince.

I would’ve preferred this book to be about Bucky and Steve’s epic Bromance. Not his teenage romance with an OC that probably doesn’t even exist in the comics. Natasha/Bucky shippers must hate this book.

Wow. Bucky is… a whole lot of stupid. First mission as a spy, he brags about being a spy to a pretty girl. He literally thinks real espionage is just like it is in his comic books. I’m convinced the #1 reason he was recruited is that he’s an orphan with no parents who’ll miss him when he dies.

Was that SA or some magical fairy torture? I’m confused.

Wow, that got dark. Lyr’s death wasn’t this heart wrenching.

Is this the comic book universe, where Bucky is Captain America’s plucky child sidekick? So far, nothing is following the MCU movies.

Glad to see Amalthea again. But I’m not so sure about Schmendrick/Molly Gru. And why are they practically unaged while Lyr turned ancient? He’s younger than them!

Bucky was in his early twenties at the start of Captain America. He was most certainly not a teenager.