Anna
I really enjoyed my time with this book. There were themes of found family and finally finding a place where you belong and can truly be yourself. Which was really wonderful. It felt like just the right cozy fantasy romance I wanted to read.
But then came the third act breakup, and that kind of soured the experience for me. Third act breakups have a tendency to do that for me, and this book was actually a good example as to why they often do. The reason for the breakup was well set up, but I felt that the reaction by our protagonist was a little overblown and, therefore, made the reconciliation just a couple of days (or pages) later a little bit difficult to believe. If there were a better explanation as to why she changed her mind and came back, that might have helped, but there was too little of that for my taste. In my opinion, many third act breakups (or arguments) tend to have that problem when the book still ends with a happy end.
I really enjoyed my time with this book. There were themes of found family and finally finding a place where you belong and can truly be yourself. Which was really wonderful. It felt like just the right cozy fantasy romance I wanted to read.
But then came the third act breakup, and that kind of soured the experience for me. Third act breakups have a tendency to do that for me, and this book was actually a good example as to why they often do. The reason for the breakup was well set up, but I felt that the reaction by our protagonist was a little overblown and, therefore, made the reconciliation just a couple of days (or pages) later a little bit difficult to believe. If there were a better explanation as to why she changed her mind and came back, that might have helped, but there was too little of that for my taste. In my opinion, many third act breakups (or arguments) tend to have that problem when the book still ends with a happy end.