A friend recommended it to me saying it wasn't actually horror. That could be true for maybe future arcs, since I know beginnings tend to be worse than the rest of the story for impact's sake, but boy can I not get past the first arc, or even the 4th chapter itself.

I quite enjoyed the beginning with its fantastical tone and good girl princess, though the mention of hotels' revolving doors did throw me off, but I'm starting to learn that Tamsyn Muir is full of anachronisms from the other reviews. It being 4 AM in the morning and having read several other Tamsyn Muir short stories and discovering that she does, in fact, commit to her horror in ways I need to stop disregarding and just assuming I can read, I scrolled through the other reviews to see if I should section it up by chapter or read it all in one go. Long story short, the reviews told me I would not, in fact, like or survive the book because I'm not someone who enjoys horror

and unhappy endings

. It truly was fun while it lasted, but I'm going to spare myself the mental trauma.