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- 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
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- 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 ...more
Full of cool ideas, but it was rather slow getting to the actual plot.
Oct 02, 2017
Vanessa Gayle ⚔️ Fangirl Faction
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Maudaevee
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Dec 13, 2018
Cora
marked it as tbr-on-hand
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british-author,
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