Good stuff, y'all, but you already knew that! ;-)

As always, an awesome book from Cornelia Funke. I've seen reviews that complain about being dropped into a world without any background, but that's part of the charm. You get to discover everything for the first time as it happens. Besides, it's not really without background as our fairytales come from this world. I love it!!!!

I kind of expected a few of the end results...

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That Jacob somehow had the same blood as King Guismond, for example, but it wasn't until he saw the other mirror that I thought "oh, they're just from the same world, not related."

But it certainly wasn't something that got in the way of the ending. I really enjoyed the growing relationship between Fox and Jacob, the transition from "friend" to "potentially more than just friend" is handled really well and without a random "OMG I love you - OMG I love you, too - let's make out for the rest of the book and then have an awkward where is this heading conversation" moment.

If you even remotely liked Reckless then you will love Fearless. :-)

I knew I would cry! Also, I don't know why I ever put off reading anything by John Green because even knowing that I'll think the teenagers are pretentious and intellectually snobbish I also know that I'm still going to absolutely love it because I'm that way! (Y'all, I said it, I'm an intellectual snob! Ha!) Regardless, his teenagers are written the way they always are and I still loved it! And I cried. In a bar... Because I finished reading this while drinking in a bar at a birthday party crawfish boil for me and a couple others... That's how I roll. :-D

This book was difficult to get through and for good reason. Reading about rape and rape culture should never be easy, but maybe someday it will be history rather than current events.

I leave you with my favorite video on consent: https://youtu.be/oQbei5JGiT8

Knowing Snape's actual story makes Dumbledore's death more heartbreaking to me. He is reaching out to a person who has spent so much of his life on the edge of both sides, who does not want to kill the only person who has truly believed in him, and who will do what is necessary because he knows what is at stake. Severus Snape is the true hero of this story.

This was an amazing account. I followed the story in the news, of course, because privacy is a big deal.

Just, wow. It's been a while since I've had an unputdownable series and this is definitely one of them!!!