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The Lost Sunday by Ileana Surducan
5.0

I received an ARC through NetGalley and this is my honest and voluntary review.

The Lost Sunday is about a town where there is no Sunday, and the people just work and work without stopping on the six days of the week. Also the days of the week are wolves. So a girl called Nina gets fed up with this, and sets out to find the lost Sunday and bring it back so that they can rest.

Of course, it gets a bit more complicated, because it turns out that resting all the time and forgetting about responsibility hurts people too. You need a balance between hard work and rest, on every day of the week, not just Sunday.

I liked the imagery and the concept of the days being wolves, especially towards the end. There are also some cool notes about the fairytales used (there's several folktales that this story is based on) and concept art.