"In the dreaming twilight, he knew nothing but her."

Easily one of my favorite covers of the year.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the interior.

If I was basing this entirely off of preference, this would be rated much lower. But I went into it without the knowledge that this was meant to be more... light-hearted and quirky (almost to the point of being satirical) and I won't lower the rating just because I had different expectations.

So for what it was trying to be, I don't think this was a bad book. There's a lot of humor and magical birds and hijinks that may appeal to the target audience - one I'm not a part of.

However, even once I removed my expectations and accepted that this wasn't meant for me, I believe this book fell short in quite a few ways. It is repeated a million times how intelligent our two main characters are, but to prove this, every other character is the biggest idiot you've ever seen in your entire life. It wasn't funny how stupid they were, it was irritating.

The closest comparison I can think of is that this read like an adult, steamy version of a middle grade fantasy novel - complete with over the top humor, ridiculous situations, and garishly stupid bad guys.

Overall, I really disliked this but I don't think it was terrible and I do think it (mostly) succeeded at being what it intended to be.
If this sounds interesting to you and you're someone that doesn't mind your books being heavy on the silliness, with hints of the most cardboard feminism you've ever seen in your life - I think you could really enjoy this.

I truly wish I could have enjoyed it more.