Claudia

Her testimony is really good and I love the last section of the book breaks down beliefs she previously had, how Christians overemphasize marriage as if God promises everyone gets a spouse and singleness is not equally important to God. Good stuff.

3.75 ⭐️ It gave me the same vibes as folk of the air (fmc is raised around the folk and smart enough to make deals with them safely) and she bullys the mmc for several pages. lol. The plot was ok but the world building was great. The ending was pretty good. I don't like she's 17 and he's unknown age but honestly he feels like he's early 20's I can't buy him being older than that. Also feels like his main character trait was falling for human women even though there's a law against that. I thought the laws were like fae rules (I.e. can't lie) but I guess not

Girl's entire family dies and now she gets to look over her body and reflect on her life and decide if she want to come back. Sad book good message. Life is worth living even in tragedy

This book is a bunch of “laws” backed by one example in history where it worked out in someone's favor. The way it's written makes you feel like the author and everyone he mentions is a snake in the grass. The history examples are like the worst people. Powerful? I guess. But Henry the 8th, Machiavelli, Ivan the terrible, Christopher Columbus are all infamous for bad things.

As a stem girlie, the use of the word law is inaccurate but I guess they took a page from Schrödinger because some laws contradict other laws.

That's how you write a villain origin story. The author gets wonderland, she gets the characters. All of them feel true to their original counterparts. Fans of Alice in wonderland appreciate the appearances or transformations of familiar characters (the hatter, hare, executioner, mock turtle, and more). You root for the romance but there comes a point where it's like watching a train wreck, you know it's not going to work out and there's no going back.