Customer Reviews
This book is incredibly depressing and disappointing.I bought it because it was compared to Spinning Silver and The Bear and the Nightingale, and I assumed it was some kind of grown up Red Riding Hood story.It is not.If you are looking for steamy romance, look elsewhere.I read around 200 books a year and rarely leave reviews, but this book was so incredibly unenjoyable that I feel obligated to warn others off of it.It’s a story of unwashed, sad, abused people being met with unfairness and violence at every turn. Nothing in the entire book goes right for them except the last 2 pages and the epilogue. At no point did I expect anything good to happen. They make stupid choices throughout the book.Another review said it’s like a DnD campaign where every single roll is a 1. I’d just add that the dungeon master is also incompetent at planning the adventure.1 star being the writing is good in a purely technical sense.
The printing of these books is very subpar. The text block is crooked and the spine end band is not on correctly. Also Amazon ships it without any protection and the cover gets damaged and ripped. I reordered this book since the first one was damaged and both of them are printed incorrectly.
Worth readingI wish the Slavic? Mythology was more detailed in an appendix. Some sex just one gratuitous passage- skippable. Teenager service.
Pure mysery page after page! The main character was crying ALL the time and I really felt for her. She was powerless, riddiculed, cast out, kidnapped, imprisoned, hurt, hopeless and... again hurt, imprisoned, powerless, hopeless... and then again... As I mentioned I liked the book, but it was just SO DARK. There was too many severed limbs, mentiones of self-harm, hate and the monsters were just SO GROSS. Not a book for faint-hearted.
I can't say I liked it. But it held me captive until the very end. I suggest preparing yourself for a monsoon of blood, disembodied limbs, and death.
