I'm sad about this DNF. A book with a ton of promise that just felt like it was written for me - but turned out to be a poorly recylced Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries. Super wimsical on the surface and yet an overwhelmingly dense, sluggish reading experience? So dense the characters got lost in the excessive bird puns and silliness. I love bird puns, whimsy, and silliness in my books - but this just did not work for me. Frustrated with how I kept losing interest and it looks like a lot of other negative reviews feel the same way. Almost an excellent book with something indescribable missing.