JANUARY TBR

It is currently a standalone and I have read this before as well, but when I read this, I was going back and forth between reading it and listening to the audiobook and I was not a fan of the audiobook for this one. And I think that kind of hindered my enjoyment of it. It is a fascinating story.

And the first character that we follow and that we primarily follow for the first half of the book, I didn't love and I didn't really care about her perspective much. And then later in the book, we start to really get more invested in a different character and I liked him a lot more.

The first half, I actually considered dnfing this book because while it wasn't bad, I just wasn't really connecting with the main character and the plot to me wasn't that intriguing. But the second half of the book I thought really picked up.

This is going to be a reread for me, but I absolutely love these books, and I am not the kind of person that normally enjoys collections of short stories, but these are definitely exceptions. I think they're absolutely wonderful and if you don't mind your fantasy being a teensy bit dark, I highly recommend you read this.