4.75

Leigh Bardugo was made to write fairy tales. Each story in this collection was so beautiful and dark, and there was obvious influences from works such as Grimm's fairy tales. My personal favourites were  The Witch of Duva, The Soldier Prince and  When Water Sang Fire but I would still give each of these stories five stars. I can guarantee that Sara Kipin isn't going to get enough credit for her incredible illustrations but she should because they're absolutely stunning. I'm not kidding when I say I want to put the final illustrations of each story on my wall.

My only criticism is that I would have liked one or two Suli tales because personally I've always been most interested in those people while reading the Grisha books, but that really is just personal preference and doesn't take away from the book at all. It was an amazing inclusion to the Grishaverse and I would recommend it to everyone, whether you've read any of Leigh's books or not.