There’s just way too much going on in this series at this point and it’s gone too far away from all the things I loved about the first book and I just can’t bring myself to care anymore. I might go back to this at some point but for now I’m going to put it on pause.

I’ve attempted to read this about 3 times now and every time I’ve just found it so boring so I think I’m finally giving up on this one 😩

Unfortunately just found the writing in this to be a bit cheesy and wasn’t feeling very invested so just decided not to continue 

No job is worth this hun, just leave…

Seriously though, I can’t deal with this main character. She just keeps inventing wild justifications for things that really should be a red flag. Ridiculous things keep happening that I think are meant to be like tense, everyone talks stupid and it’s like 40% through and I don’t care at all. I really don’t understand the comparisons to Du Maurier. 

Honestly, the best part is the interludes about mythology. Sorryyyy

I just picked this up because it was on sale without looking into it. I love mythology and have a decent knowledge of Greek, Roman and Norse myths and wanted to do some more reading about other cultures' folklore. This book is good for giving very brief little summaries of different folktales from around the world. 

However, in just the bits that I read I noticed a fair amount of inaccuracies in the mythologies that I do know which makes me suspect they are present in the myths I wasn't familiar with as well and there are quite a few grammatical errors. 

The book also refers to Native Americans as "Indians" throughout which made me assume it was really old but apparently it was only written in 2020 which is shocking. It also includes stories from several present day, active religions which to me seems kind of offensive and patronising, especially if you're not going to present them accurately. And it just has a slightly patronising tone in the way it relates some of the stories.

So I don't know, I guess if you want like a very basic intro to mythology then it might be a good starting point but I could list many better ones. This just feels like it wasn't really edited or checked by anyone. Probably not worth the time. 

Nothing was particularly bad about this, it just wasn’t holding my attention and honestly I just forgot I was even listening to it

I have no justification for this, I only read the first chapter and then I just let my library loan time out because I wasn't interested enough to keep picking it up.

Might come back to at some point, just wasn't in the mood for this kind of thing

This was fine, the world was super whimsical and it was lovely. I just found the story a little standard and felt it setting up a love triangle which I can't be bothered to read about and it just wasn't holding my attention enough to push through with it. But I would recommend if you want something lighthearted and whimsical.