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Review also available on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6381729007?book_show_action=false I honestly wasn't expecting to love this book. I watch some BookTubers who have less than stellar feelings about SJM and her works. So I went into this with low expectations. And for the first few chapters I thought that those expectations would be met. I ended up skipping chapters 2 through 4 (I eventually came back to them) because I was bored and wanted to get to the fae. Good news: I stopped being bored pretty fast once we met them. This is a beautiful story. The imagery is beautiful. The themes are beautiful. The characters are described as beautiful. And it hit me during an early scene when Feyre goes outside into the gardens that I really wanted more beautiful things in my reading. I didn't read this for the most groundbreaking, mind-blowing prose I've ever seen. The prose is serviceable. It does its job. It functions. That's all it really needs to do,...

SPOILER WARNING Review can also be found on Goodreads at this link:  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6434309352?book_show_action=false Note: I received an e-copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for my review. Quotes may differ from the retail text. "In my mind, I whispered words of apology for pushing the power away for so long. I didn't know. I didn't know what you were. I said it to myself, with my heart wrenching. I said it to myself, with a sob in my breast." This quote comes toward the end of the book and hit me so hard I had to stop to take a picture of the page before reading on so that I would remember it. This is book one of a series, and this quote felt like the beginning of the story of this new Morgan LeFay, the start of the tale she will tell for herself. Early in the book I noted themes of agency, both its loss and reclamation; and of family. Here I recognized the third major theme of this book: self. Self-empowerment, self-respect, self...