ah, this was a really beautiful, very full read. full of magic and words. i liked all of the characters, and honestly really liked the magic - even tho there was no rhyme or reason behind it. if you’re like me and don’t really care about magic with “rules” this is for you, because the main character literally does her magic by breaking them, and i LOVE that.

there were parts that was hard to read. like, you know when you’re reading and there’s multiple paragraphs to indicate a change in thought or scene? yeah, there wasn’t a lot of that, lol. you kind of just had to roll with it and let the words flow over you. if you listen to it on audiobook, you probably wouldn’t notice, but reading it physically made it hard to follow at times. but the words were very beautiful, and it was easy to get sucked in. i did take a long break from reading bc 2020 is just one thing after another, and it was difficult to understand where i left off bc the writing is very forward-moving, with little internal musings or recaps (if that...makes sense? does that make sense? this entire review may be making me look crazy