So many people dislike this book so no one was more surprised than me when I absolutely loved it. This has been one of the few stories in this series that I devoured. I absolutely loved the concept of the Hooflands. I loved horses when I was younger, so I absolutely adored the unicorns and centaurs. The kelpies were an interesting mix as well. I loved Regan's character and this realm felt refreshing for me.

WOW FUCK ANTOINETTE'S STEP DAD. What happened with her and him was extremely jarring and triggering to read and I'm so happy Antsy found her door. This one is definitely my favorite, the shop was the most interesting and unique doors, and I found myself devouring this realm. This also touched on grief and losing innocence and those topics were handled with care.

Wow this was awful DNF at 40%

As someone who grew up seeing domestic abuse and being verbally abused, this had me in shambles. Part of me was screaming for Abby to run for the hills and the other part me felt conflicted with her. Dawson was a god send, and I'm thankful Abby got out of that situation. The ending had twists I wasn't expecting and I'm super grateful for the triggers provided by Katie at the beginning. It was nice for this topic to be discussed with empathy and not used as entertainment (cough, CoHo, cough.)

This was surprisingly well done. I thought that the magic and being decendants of the fates was a unique concept and storyline. This has some great banter and I liked the characters.

This was engaging and oddly creepy. From the cover, I assumed I would be spooked at times, sure, but WHOA. There was an unsettling creepiness the entire time. This was atmospheric and this would be amazing to read during spooky season. I absolutely loved the way the author wrote, I will be checking this author out again.

I didn't realize this was in a series and it was fine as a standalone but it switched between English and Spanish and as someone who isn't bilingual unfortunately, I didn't understand some of the story and was lost. There was a lot of unnecessary commentary and I didn't particularly like the abrupt ending. Not for me.

This...this was painfully boring. I so badly wanted to like this because middle grades always tend to brighten my day but this was so hard to get through. I did like the characters and that was the only saving grace.

I'm 50/50 on this book. The lighter part of this book, the meet cute is whimsical and it feels like it's a fairytale. Bianca and Eric are super cute and I loved watching them grow. I didn't like the slow second half, the time jumps, and there were some heavier topics. I appreciate the heavier topics (substance abuse, abortion) being mentioned but it was kind of off-putting and triggering. It's at best a 3 for me.

I never planned on reading this book because I thought it was too over hyped but then my book club chose it for April and... holy shit. This was so good?? Bree and Archer both had traumas that many people can't cope with but they were both two of the sweetest people ever? I had so much love for them and the last couple chapters...if you know you know. I thought something happened and bawled my eyes out. But the ending of this made me so happy. I'm still thinking about this tbh.