This is my first book of Victoria Schwab which turned out to be her debut novel too. It was first published in 2011 and this is the new edition with a backdrop story at the back, to an important character in the book whose background wasn't explained in the near witch properly.

Tbh, I enjoyed the novella (which is the prequel to my favourite character of the book) more than the actual book itself.

The writing was very normal and was nothing like how her fans are raving about. I guess it's because this is her debut novel and she herself has mentioned in the introduction that this was one of the stories she wrote in her earlier days just to be sure if she is able to end a story or not.

This is a part fairytale and part romance with magic and witches. The story starts when a stranger enters our protagonist's small town and from the next night the children of the town are disappearing one by one every night. So the whole story took place in about a week.

I really loved the setting and how each people are close to one another in that small town but also it was totally weird how they reacted to a stranger as if they have never seen one in their life (which is true too).

For some reason, I loved the instalove in this book. I think it's because I have read about the stranger in the prequel and liked him. Here I loved him even more which made the romance pretty bearable and good. I didn't like the main character who is a girl named Lexi much. She was so annoying and stupid most of the times.

It was overall good and I really enjoyed it but it wasn't upto my expectation though. That doesn't mean I will not read any of her other books. I will. because I liked her writing and would like to read more. So yeah that's it. Thanks for reading the review all the way down.