Much quicker read than I anticipated. Overall, I feel kinda disappointed - mostly because it wasn't as fucked up as some of the recommenders stated it would be. A lot of the plot points felt like standard love triangles, and although it starts off strong with the main character falling in strange love with the troll child, it doesn't really explore that in a way I found actually unnerving. It was treated like rehabilitating a stray dog for 140 pages? And while there are some strange obsessive factors lurking underneath (including one very uncomfortable orgasm), they were never anything more than offhand before getting back into the banality.

Still, I did like it for the eventual macro-plot of it being a twist on the folktale of trolls stealing maidens to take into their mountain halls. I just wish that aspect were more of the focus rather than 140 pages of "oh no my weird dog has worms" and then 100 more pages of "my weird dog is jealous of my lovers" before anything approaching a climax (heh).