S.M. Wheeler

Fantastic book, and aptly named for it is full of some unfathomable transformation of Lilly brought upon by the sacrifice and quest to rescue her friend.

My only issue is that I sometimes found the narrative a bit hard to follow, of who was speaking or taking action, so I had to reread sentences and paragraphs a bit.

An interesting, very dark fairy tale. Not for children.

3.5
Very unexpected, but not necessarily in a bad way.

Reading this book is like reading a traditional heroine's quest fantasy turned 90 degrees. Nothing quite happened the way I have been led to expect by countless plucky heroine stories before it. This is the story you find when you turn the shiny river stone over and see the beauty in the ugly, mossy black wet underside