I have ... no idea how to rate this? Or how to review it? I’m still in shock, honestly.

This book was wild, and really strange and unsettling and disturbing but also really heart aching at times and meaningful. I really liked Vassa (even though she made me want to scream at times) and connected to her character pretty deeply. Some stuff I need to think about more cause I just really did not get it the first time reading, especially how things worked out with her memories of her mother (???). But the book was so weird that it was riveting from start to finish (though I maintain that the prelude should have been left out because we learn in three pages everything the book tells us in the next hundred pages). Excuse me, but I’m going to go shower now and think about darkness and roses. Go get this book if you want to be perturbed, disturbed, and lost in thought for the next eight years.