I really couldn't buy Erris and Nim as a romance - that's probably my biggest hang-up. The villains were perfectly, painfully average and underdeveloped, so when they really started becoming important, my interest waned a little. (Which is also kinda why I'm not keen on going into the second book, although you've been warned that this one NEEDS a sequel for the plot.) Magic is never explained but shown instead, and even if that made me a little confused, everything in this review so far came together to make a quaint little fairy tale with numerous threads and ideas and surprises. Character dynamics may not be the most complicated or developed of things, but they're varied and there are many. I love that kind of stuff and it was done spectacularly here. From other reviews I read, this point is a little divisive, but for my part I think Dolamore did wonderfully in revealing the world around our characters not like a textbook but like how someone would talk about their lives.bits and pieces of Nim's homeland were described in associations and memories, the information about the fairies and the war were from overheard conversations or sneaked into everyday discussions. I admittedly liked the feeling that went through most of the book - that we were looking into one modest story in a world that sprawled much larger, and was much more complicated, heated, and dangerous. This was a whole lot of story packed into a tiny book. "If secrets could burn, I'd be the first to light the match." "I should like to forget my secrets myself," he said.
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