wow. this is an insanely long book. over 900 pages, and approximately over 1600 pages, if my kobo reader was to be believed. granted, i cheated a little since i mostly skipped joules and kaycee's chapters—only reading some chapters when i really wanted to know what was going on with them, but, still. that was a wild ride. i thought i would grow bored eventually.

you would have thought that with the premise of the main characters' love hinging on a curse that it would be incredibly corny, but it wasn't. this book was deeper and more heartfelt than i thought. i went from "what the fuck, why do we even care about this curse?" to being on the edge of my seat and wanting both tam and lake to survive. i loved how organic their relationship progression was. i also thought the author would use a cheat code and use insta-lust as a device, but she didn't. you get to see how these two fell in love bit by bit, and i found that beautiful.

overall, i really enjoyed this book! i would recommend it to any mariana zapata readers because only mz readers would be able to stomach how long this book is. trust me, it's worth it.