A beautiful retelling of Sleeping Beauty, where the princess never goes to sleep!

This book uses multiple POVs to follow the lives of our FMC’s.
The Queen, her lady in waiting, Sel (a Master’s apprentice) who show us the lengths mothers will go to to protect their children and friends will go to to be supportive.
You also see the viewpoints of Talia and Briar, who are living very different lives but both in the shadows of the curse they know nothing about.

The pacing was quite slow but I was driven to find out how the curse would conclude. The POVs definitely made the plot more interesting as you could see how each of our character’s lives were panning out 

Reading the sequel to a book you LOVE is always so intimidating! Will it live up to that love? Will it suffer from second book syndrome? So I’ve put this book off for far too long 

But…I loved it

The characters I loved and adored from Little Thieves, I somehow managed to find a way to love them more.
They’re perfectly, imperfect and for that reason, even with all the fantasy woven through, it just felt so realistic.

It’s also hard to review sequels without spoilers so I’ll leave it with just vibes.

Space politics and slowwww pace are just not working for me. Nothing has happened and I don’t really know where it’s going.