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Wendy
Sep 05, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I might be the perfect reader profile for this book. Let's see...

- Is just a tad pretentious
- Has probably read more Victorian books than 95% of living population
- Appreciates clever blending of history and historically-accurate folklore, especially a Queen Mab any real Elizabethan would recognize
- Recently read a book about Margaret Cavendish, thus read most of this through a fangirly Margaret Cavendish lens
- Has zero issues with well-presented, non-romanticized "taboo" content, having read eno
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Trish
Full of cool ideas, but it was rather slow getting to the actual plot.
Maudaevee
Oct 04, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Apr 02, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Aug 27, 2019 marked it as to-read
Jessi Feltes
Mar 18, 2020 marked it as to-read
Olivia
Mar 05, 2021 rated it liked it
Shelves: fiction, fantasy
Colleen Scidmore
Jun 17, 2021 marked it as to-read
Shelves: tbd
Michelle
Oct 04, 2021 marked it as to-read
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Mar 22, 2022 marked it as to-read
Hannah Peterson
Jun 18, 2022 marked it as to-read