“I wanted to save us all from our stories, but I should have known better than anybody: there are worse endings than sleeping for a hundred years.”

Trigger/Content warnings may be considered spoilers about certain themes or plot twists in the story
TW/CW: Arranged marriage; Incurable disease (fictional); Mentions of past rape; Violence

Zina is dying, and when she pricks her finger during her 21st birthday she begins to slip between words. It was an interesting retelling, with a few diversions from the normal retelling genre. The main character I just didn’t really vibe with. The way she behaved was just odd to me. Overall a good story, with a lackluster main character.