First read: 23rd January 2023
Re-read: 27 September 2024

This is my bedtime fairytale truly.
In childhood there was the Grimm brothers and in adulthood there is Alix E. Harrow.
The writing is so simple but structured so beautifully that this time around reading it was relaxing and soothing. It’s a tale I recite to myself to fall asleep and then recite it in sleep too.
Of course the ending still got me. Especially because I thought it showed us a happily ever after the first time I read it but it doesn’t do so in the way I thought so it felt like reading it for the first time.
I think the way the story was told and the narrator for the audiobook is what truly got me. Because the plot outline is good but it’s amazing to me because of those two things.

The effects of ‘I would rather love a coward than mourn a legend’ are still felt in this household to this day.