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This surprised me. I loved reading about the characters and I wish it had been longer. Also, I would so love a prequel story where we got to see how Audrey set up her empire and inspired so many loyal people. She is such a wonderful character and I'm so happy to read books that aren't neurotypical ... makes me feel less alone :)

Absolutely my favorite read of the year. So cozy and wonderful, with lovely characters. Beautiful, found-family, learning to connect.

Edit: Dec 2022
Re-read for the 2nd time to get warm fuzzies for the holiday

Love this series so much, it's beautiful and cozy with wonderful characters.

EDIT: Re-read in Dec. 2022 for a warm fuzzy holiday feel. Still love the book, so cozy.

I wish this was as cozy as the others, but I understand. What a beautiful ending to this series. I so wish there were more, more, more. I'm in love with Tupper and Frey and Aurelius and everyone... I would live on Morven's mountain with them all. This is such a gorgeous found-family kind of story (with really sweet real family for good measure).

Edit: Re-read for the cozy winter

The book description was intriguing but the entire story is let down by a main character who is too stupid to live, as well as just a horrible person. Not to mention the asshole male main character.

Really glad to have a main character who isn't the typical bubbly, sassy, chatty chick.

Enjoyed having an older main character for once. Writing was great as per usual with Bujold, and I really enjoy the world-building.

Comfort re-read.

It grieves me that I couldn't give this a higher personal rating. I loved the beginning – it started out so strongly and interestingly, but then devolved into Yet Another Typical Tale where a very talented, very smart young woman becomes achingly boring after falling in love almost instantly with (who else) a prince. The ending was also quite rushed, I feel, and ... well, apart from the first ~20% of the book, the story was sadly disappointing.

MC is infuriating and stupid.

I liked Antimony even better than her siblings, which was a surprise. The best thing about this series is still the Aeslin mice. :P

There was a note that this was “professionally edited” ... unfortunately, the author should probably fire and/or not hire that so-called editor he used, because there were so many errors still left in –using the word ‘of' instead of ‘off' or things like ‘an victory' or ‘onto to' ... SO MANY MORE! Dear author, if you paid actual money for this to be “professionally edited” then you got scammed, no doubt about it.

Amateurish writing that was at least better than the crap that the LitRPG genre comes out with (I know they're different subgenres, just comparing). The plot was okay, I suppose, though there were numerous points I found myself rolling my eyes, especially toward the end.

Very US-centric (no surprise as the author is from the USA) but still has solid base knowledge for everyone no matter where they live. Just skim/skip the parts that are country-specific and you'll have things to contemplate to how to make your financial life better.

Beauty & the Beast retelling, with some differences. I enjoyed the strong characters and the story was lovely. One of my favorite retellings.

Apart from the whole boss/subordinate thing, really enjoyed this cozy book.

Absolutely adorable. I had to run to Goodreads to post a 5-star review right after I finished the book, and boy do I wish there were way more pages. I wanted more of sweet Alphonse and Jacobi!! I love them so much and they deserved all the happiness. This story is a cozy, comfy read and I will definitely read this again any time I need a pick-me-up! So beautiful..

I was never a theater kid, so half this book bored me immensely instead of – as I suppose was the intent – making me gasp at the author's genius for including certain plays and pages of dialogue. And I do mean PAGES and PAGES of dialogue from Shakespeare's plays. Also, the characters don't come across as sparkling and witty; they come across as horribly pretentious and off-putting. The author loved to harp on and on about how “close” their friendships were, but their relationships with each other looked so shallow.

Around the 35% mark, I realized why the story started with establishing the fact that someone was killed and someone who'd been in prison for it may not have been the real villain: because the book is incredibly DULL, and if it wasn't for those two tidbits, then I (and many other people, I'm thinking) would have stopped reading.

I pushed myself on after again feeling the urge to DNF this crap at around 50% but I wanted to see if all the things I thought were correct, and yep, they were. I knew who the victim would be, I knew who the guilty person was, I knew why people did what they did, etc. etc. These conclusions were drawn way, way, way before the 50% mark and I was thinking the entire time, “No, this can't be it. The victim can't truly be the victim ... and the obvious guilty party can't truly be the one who did it, right? There's going to be a twist. Some cool turn coming, surely?” Nope. Didn't happen. I was imagining all sorts of cool stuff that could raise the level of this book. More crimes, more cunning, something more? Nope. Boring and disappointing.

Main character is an infuriating, gigantic brat. Mouthing off, doing dumb shit, acting like a jackass, and being rude doesn't mean you're strong. It means you're too fucking stupid to properly play the game you so badly want to win. Fuck off with this shit.

I'm all for RH, sex scenes, monsters, hot trashy goodness, whatever. What I'm annoyed by are main characters who have no worthwhile character/personality and yet have all sorts of amazing people fall all over her. Look, I totally get the fantasy of “everyday girl suddenly being the popular one with all the people in a 500-mile radius falling straight in love/lust with her” (lots of romances and RHs are like that), but at least other books have actual INTERESTING main characters who have SOME semblance of awesomeness to them, whether quirks or wit or sweetness or whatever. This one is just bland. All I could think was, why the hell did any of these interesting monsters even deign to be hers? Then again, some have waited hundreds of years apparently so I guess getting sex after so long messes with your discernment.

Such a sweet male MC.

Really enjoyed reading about the different cultures and relationships between the characters.

Second book by this author I've read. Unfortunately, both stories didn't work to me. I don't enjoy the way the author does characters or plots, so won't be reading any more. Too bad, I liked the book blurb.

I watched The Last Unicorn a million times as a child in the 1980s but for some reason only now that I'm 40 did I pick up the book. I think I was afraid the magic would have faded, and I wanted to hold onto the memory of the film helping me survive those horrific, trauma-filled years. The book is beautiful and holds up well, though I found myself saddened when I got to the last page. Something about revisiting childhood gems makes them a little less ethereal, a little more flawed. But I love the story all the same, cracks and all. My rating is biased because my inner child would never forgive me for giving it 4 stars instead of 5.

Sweet, slow burn. I enjoyed the characters and their interactions ... I understand what people mean in their reviews when they say it's almost too slow a burn, but my only issue is that the end felt so abrupt. I wish we'd gotten more time with the characters together.

I don't know what happened to this series. Last book was so boring. Dragged with uninteresting things... Also, it would have been better if Sabetha just existed in Locke's head, because the reality is so disappointing.