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I...was expecting something else. So I'm disappointed, but for what it was it was okay.

You know, it's embarrassing, but somehow in my head I remembered this being about a girl who might be an extraterrestrial. Apparently I confused it with some of the many, many, many sci-fi books I read as a boy.

So far I'm digging this. It feels...right. Gritty. Quick. Dark, but doesn't take itself too seriously. It feels like a mix of pulp and noir and urban fantasy, but with some nice doses of satire. Great literature? Nay. But fun pulp.

This FEELS like the author's first book. There are these long passages of rich, luscious text...and then they're brought to a screeching halt by clunky exposition or bland prose. I think she hasn't learned how to weave the two, beautiful prose & things that move the plot forward, together. But I'm enjoying it -- especially that she's explaining the yurie rather than just relying on the Sadako/Samara streotype.

Beneath the superficial veneer of supernatural, this is a bog-standard romance novel. The Fair Folk might as well just be humans for all the differences there are between the two. All it's doing is making me wish I was reading a Juliet Marillier book instead...

Boy. This is...mediocre. I mean, it speaks to a certain modern female wish fulfillment fantasy, in the same way that Edgar Rice Burroughs self-consciously addressed a certain then-contemporary male wish-fulfillment, but the difference is that E.R.B. was a skillful prose-author, while Maas is at best "workmanlike." I'm spacing out while reading this and missing nothing, even during action sequences.