I received an eARC from NetGalley and this is my honest review.

This was a solid 3-star read.
It was ok.

The whole book is written as a collection of storytelling snippets of mysteries, old fairy tales, magical kingdoms, and legends. All of that was intertwined with the character's story and life, bringing the veil of mystery even closer to the reader. The writing style did well for the descriptive parts of the story and the richness of the character's life filled with imagination and with that an escape from reality. This is where the mystery factor is brought in.

Now, this was such a good idea and I loved how the story started. It was mysterious, sensual, and promising from the start, I was really into it but then the flatness happened.
The main characters' relationship was non-existent. For me, they could easily be two strangers meeting in the street and hooking up for a day or two. All of their years together and I still had no clue what was holding them together. Their love for storytelling? No... that would be more likely for a secret society, but for marriage...just didn't feel it.

Spoiler

The manipulation is so strong in this story, and it is the main reason for things happening, but it does get annoying in some parts reading about it since there is no readers connection to the characters

There was a lot of telling in the story and not much showing, which grew a bit tiresome within the book's second half. Not to mention that the plot was so predictable, you could figure it out quite early in the book. The problem with that happening was, I believe, that the story was told from the dual POV and there were only a few other characters in the story and the hints were so strongly presented...so not a lot of room for guessing. Given that I expected the plot twist, it didn't have the wow impact that the story was meant to have.