I truly have mixed feelings on this book. It’s a tale wonderfully told, with beautiful prose, great characters, excitement, intrigue. So I should, by all accounts, adore this book. But I was alternately caught between “just get through this chapter, then you’ve done your due diligence for today” and suddenly finding that 2.5 chapters have gone by.

I was kind of bored by the 3 chapters of backstory, and wasn’t entirely sure that I wanted to read the excerpts from the book at all. And it kind of bothers me that there was all that talk about how she had to be careful about writing words into the world but then no bad things happen when she does.

So in short: I understand why people love this book, but I don’t.