This was just... so bad? Like, really, really bad. I don't know when Eve and Nova were supposed to've fallen in love, when Nova says it, my only reaction was: "What, where?!" They barely freaking know each other, Eve was irascible that entire time, and Nova ultimately spent more time with her mom than her so: HUH?

Every character's actions were.... I don't know how to describe it. First-thought actions? Not even impulsive because that implies conviction and gut feeling and this was more: I've had a thought, now I must act on it and they're complex situations so it's always just a stupid thought more than anything else. The characters who die... it's kind of their own faults because it would be so very easy not to? Just... don't do the dumb thing you just did? So it's hard to feel much sympathy at all.

Eve's wish at the end????? Your friend just died, your mom's still a fucking bird, your other mom has now rapidly aged and your wish didn't address any of it??? Also, why was there a "deal" at the end to save Nova? A deal implies the Knight potentially gets something out of it too, instead it's just: here's a way to undo the consequences of that last deal for no reason, ta-dah. *jazz hands* And it's still the same rape-y Snow White solution but they love each other (based on nothing) so it's fine now and also it's the boy instead of the girl so does consent still matter? No, right?

I feel like this book came out into the world with not a single other person having read it first - not the author, not an editor, not a single reader. Instead words were splatted onto a page, people were like: it's probably fine, and now I'm holding this terrible monstrosity in my hands that could've potentially been rescued if someone had just asked some basic-ass, editor-like questions about it first. Like....

Why hasn't anyone tried to strategically use wishes - wish against other wishes (use the entire population who've been wish-ravaged working together since apparently the Knight is compelled to keep making deals??)/wish against the Knight/create an impossible to fulfill wish - since apparently there's no limit to how many you can ask for? Why hasn't anyone tried to unravel the bird-queen wish, not very believable no one's tried, yeah? When the fuck did Nova and Eve supposedly fall in love? Why doesn't Nova have his own plan since he also hates the Knight and knows way more about him than any other character? Why doesn't Eve's wish at the end even make an attempt to undo the previous wishes especially since she has personally felt the consequences of so many of them? Why would Junior come out to get ganked when he could've just as easily.... not, and also it would've made a lot more sense if he didn't? What was the point of all of Eve's magic since she didn't really do a lot with it and was super ineffective against the Knight? Are you really going with Eve's ancestor outsmarted the Knight because he just happened to say his name out loud in the three day period he tasked her with her figuring it out? Really though? What are you trying to say and do you think you said it? Etc., etc., etc. (I could honestly keep going and going and going so I have to stop but DO YOU SEE THE PROBLEM HERE???)