The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! đ
booksthatburn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
I like this as a take on Sleeping Beauty, but it plays the idea of changelings straight, not engaging with the historical links between âchangelingâ children and autism (or other ways of being ostracized for being strange). In that light, featuring a child so unable to learn social rules that she must be kept or killed becomes a more fraught narrative, one that makes the story harder to enjoy. I like Toadling and Halim, but because of how the backstory is told first as memories then as stories to Halim, I remain unsure just how much Toadling told him of what had happened. I appreciate Halim as an idea of a character, but as a novella there wasnât really room to flesh out that many significant characters and Toadling received most of the detail (to Halimâs detriment). The time dilation between the human world and Faerie allows for a couple of cool narrative moments. Ultimately this is a book I would neither recommend nor dissuade someone from reading.Â
Graphic: Confinement
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Child death
Minor: Self harm, Cursing, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Suicide, and Death of parent
sariereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Kidnapping and Death
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, and War
wilybooklover's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Murder, Death, Confinement, Child death, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Animal death, and Torture
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, and Blood
lysimache's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Death and Child death
Minor: Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Injury/Injury detail
meganpbell's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Confinement
Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Animal death, and Pandemic/Epidemic