Thank you Voracious Readers and MJ Padgett for the free copy of this book in exchange with an honest review!


If you know me, then you know I love retellings or any kind of book that takes inspiration from old fairy tales! So when the opportunity arose to read this book, I gladly took it and I was extremely excited to read it! Now, as you can see, I have given it a low rating, but I'll talk about that in a moment.

I really liked Calla's character, she was portrayed quite well, which I know is a very difficult thing to do when writing about teenagers. What I liked most, was her realtionship with her adoptive parents, because I have noticed that very rarely there are good parent-kids relationships in this kind ogf books. It wa srefreshing to read about a family that loved and respect each other as much as Calla's family did.

Another thing I liked a lot, was the wide variety of characters and different personalities that were there, I really enjoyed reading about all of Calla's siblings and their relationships with each other and whole close knit they were! It really made me feel warm inside seeing them playing and interacting and then trying to save each other. Also something you don't see often in books and I have to say that I loved the siblings' relationship!

Now coming to why I gave this book such a low rating. What made me almost stop reading the book altogether was Calla and Will's relationship. It didn't come naturally at all, Calla realised her feelings over a plane ride and when the next day she found out that she was his wife in the past, she took in stride and went to him, saying how much she loved him, and I was like: "WHAAAAAT?" Also, what really made me angry was the poor excuse regarding Will's horrid behavior! He was treating Calla horribly apart from a few apologies here and there and every time he did something bad, he apologised to her and then the next time, he did something even worse and then apologised again and so on! That's a toxic relationship and they were fighting so much that it didn't leave time for us to envision them as a couple that was so much in love! It really threw me off and made me not enjoy the book after that part.