I could not put this book down! I mean, fair warning, two of the stories have definite trigger material. But every story had compelling characters, and beautiful messages about kindness, friendship, and bravery. An exhilarating, uplifting read!

I picked this title for a Valentines Readathon thinking it would be raunchy or funny... It was a /slog/! It was boring and racist. And chaste, for the most part. Let me put the question to you, do you find these topics sexy?
- Dragon Farts
- Pacifism
- Dead parents
- Dead spouse
- Evening commutes
- Dreading that there might be an attacker lurking on your evening commute.
- Being right, and getting abducted by an attacker on your evening commute.
- Quilting
This was supposed to be a romance novel involving dragons, and yet the dragons are secondary to close-ups of a shut-in, cat lady drinking tea... Nothing energetic in this book at all.

A solid 4 stars - The world is chilling and tangible, the characters are moving and multi-dimensional, the plot twists and turns. I predicted a few too many of the "big reveals", I don't know if that's down to me being genre savvy or the author tipping her hand too much. But I was completely in love with the book until the last 50 pages, where it sort of stumbled at the finish. I am definitely hooked, though, and cannot wait to get my hands on the sequels.

Stunning, exhilarating, a timeless classic! It reads like one of Shakespeare's comedies with its mysteries, subtleties, and bias perspectives.

I feel like I got tricked :/ This book doesn't read so much as a Whodunnit, as it does a reimagining of "Catcher in the Rye". The narrator is untrustworthy, damaged, largely unlikable, and he makes the story about him when it should be about the murder mystery. It was well written, in a literary study kind of way. But it was not a well written /mystery/ novel, if that makes sense. I called a lot of the ending from the first few chapters.

Reads like a campfire tale, at times spooky, at times highlighting kids just being kids. I don't think it stands enough on its own, though. How good it is in retrospect might depend on what the sequels do with what's set up in this book.

Absurdist fiction at its finest. A poignant, heartfelt message about making the time to connect with the people you care about, wrapped in whackadoodle supernatural humor/events. Fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Prachett, Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler or Jasper Fforde will love this.

This book is FUN! It's a lot like reading an anime: talking cat, fighting robots, damsel with a destiny who expresses herself by whacking people upside the head... It's got swashbuckling, it's got romance, it's got great comedic dialogue. I really enjoyed seeing a German-inspired sci-fi/fantasy setting, as so many books use either America or England for their frame of reference. And I really loved big, strong, awkward, unsure, hopeful, traumatized, Agatha. I would looove to see this series brought to Netflix or something.
Was it the most "literary" thing I've ever read? No. Was it the adventurous, humorous, breath-of-fresh-air I desperately needed? Absolutely! Cannot wait to dive right into the next book.

Short Version: Not enough zombies.
Longer Version: This book is just a copy of "Pride and Prejudice" which someone copy and pasted into a Word document, then replaced various words, adding "zombie", "ninja", and excessive bodily humor references. There is little to no adaptation or wit. And how a zombiefied British countryside relates to Eastern martial arts bewilders me. The gimmick was funny for a chapter or two, but not an entire book. Not to mention, the book retains all the difficulties of the original, chiefly that the entire plot happens off-scene in letters.