A sapphic retelling of the story of Elizabeth Bathory as a battle of good and evil between a kind hearted midwife is NOT what I was expecting out of this (especially being YA?), and the execution was so much better than I was expecting. The characters are all incredible, and you truly feel yourself being drawn in by Elizabeth in the beginning. Anna was a truly smart protagonist, and I felt very REAL fear for her going through the story. Definitely check out trigger warnings for this (I may have exaggerated the severity of some of these, but this isn't a pretty story either), but definitely a good read.