I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.

This book seemed to suffer a little from an identity crisis: is it magical fantasy, or horror, not horror in the gory sense, but in the evil entity that wants to take over your soul kind. For the most part, I was bored with the story, until it went from the light fantasy to the more sinister. That seems to be when the story actually picked up. Unfortunately that happened way late in the story.

I loved the premise of Josie being pulled into these fictional stories, where she could be the heroine. It seemed like she learned lessons in each of them that she could apply to her real relationships, but she continued not to. It was assinine that continued to and sought out stories where she could be the star attraction because she couldn't handle that she was no longer the big star in real life.

This book is good for those who do like their stories of the neat and tidy, all wrapped up variety. Also, the romance is light, so if parents/tweens/teens are looking for that, it would satisfy that requirement