An enchanting and fairy tale toned story that really blew me away! This debut is certainly one y'all are not going to want to miss.
I instantly connected with Isobel about her passion and love for her craft, and it was amazing to see my emotions reflected in a character like that. A lot of times authors will use painting and being artistic as a segment to their character, but a lot of times it doesn't feel right or real to me but this one did.
The whole time I just loved the bantering. Probably one of my favorite aspects besides the VIVID imagery. I mean it doesn't get any better visual wise than that, and I get so excited to read books with beautiful descriptions like that. Anyway- the bantering alone is a HUGE reason to read this story, and also the chemistry between the love interest... AGH IT WAS FANTASTIC!
Now the story was really entrancing. It was a fae story, but it was very different than all these other ones we read now a days. It felt the closest to all the folklore you hear about, and it was just exciting/ interesting to read this story based on the lore.
Also I thought it was very right to have the fae be ignorant about a lot of human things as well as them have that "fae are better than humans" thought process. The reasoning was done really well for that portion of the story, and the faes' not having emotions was an amazing plot point.
Basically, everything just felt more realistic and true for some reason. I know I'm a broken record right now, but it is true. I read this book in less than half a day because I was THAT obsessed.
I also loved the full circle of how important Isobel's craft was. A lot of stories will have aspects to a character that are important in the beginning, but they are soon lost over time. Though that wasn't the case here, and I really appreciated it.
The story didn't make Isobel into something she wasn't, and I'm so happy that even though the story was short, I'm so fulfilled with the ending and how the pacing of the story went (I mean there was one part where everything was super fast paced, but in my opinion now that was part of that section in the book).
This book was just really thought out well, and I'm so happy I got to review this debut ahead of time!

Edit: So after thinking about it- I think I'm going to move down the rating to a 3/5 stars because I ignored the awkward/ fast paced portions of the story because I love the characters much. I also ignored the insta lovey tones in the story (I mean it wasn't that bad for me, but it left me feeling weird a lot). Now I still enjoyed this story, but it isn't a perfect or even THAT exciting.