Sad, beautifully written stories.

This is not a perfect book; the characters tend towards flatness, there is much showing rather than telling. There is too much going on -- Faustian bargains and space aliens masquerading as humans and teenage drama and social media. It's messy.

But so is life. And this book has a heart that makes me not care about any of its flaws. I laughed out loud and I cried (I cried a lot) and I covered the pages in highlighter as I fell in love with the prose.

This book is about what it means to be human, and alien, and how music can bring us both together -- and back to ourselves.

My favorite one yet.

This was mostly fine, pretty similar to the other books. Until that FUCKING SHITTY ENDING. Cimorene was a bad bitch for two books and then in this one we go full old fairy tale bullshit and all she's good for is making a stupid baby. The book ends with her about to be separated from the king for 16 ish years because only his heir can break the spell.

I HATE IT SO MUCH.