A Dowry of Blood

This book is so entirely, absolutely, beautiful and visceral. It takes you through so many visuals and so many emotions and it is incredibly written. It really dives deep into your mind, and shows perfectly how they felt. Emotions are so perfectly described.

The way they would act and think and behave being trapped in such a suffocating environment, just to transfer over into their lives, promising that they would never live a life like that again.

I absolutely loved each character's growth, though i was a bit surprised about Maggie, about how she was a very powerful ruler, and she so easily acted her part of subservient, and i thought that it was amazing to find out later that it was all, for the most part, an act on her part. I love Constanta's growth, and i also loved how Alexi started to break down, but never truly became subservient.

overall, this book is absolutely beautiful.. i annotated the HELL out of my book. just the language, and how things are composed is so absolutely breathtaking.