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I’m enjoying this! Even though very little is happening. Seems Rhen had has a plan to go among his people. Feels a little contrived at this point. To me it’s Harper’s choices that led her to be taken, and Grey’s too incidentally but not Rhen’s. Though if we go back and see his part to play in the curse you could say he has blame too.

Wow! This is so good! The showing is magnificent from character to culture. When her mother whistled to save her daughter... yeah I was blown away. And she’s only 10 years old now! And to swim out there with a dagger. How freaking sad to lose her mother that way in front of her. And she could smell the difference in the toga... her mother figured out they were poisoned!

This is so easy to read. I really love that. It’s not particularly scintillating TBH. I don’t hate it but it’s not unique or different. It IS a NEW interpretation of beauty and the beast... but I don’t feel like it’s it’s own new world. It feels too close to the original story.

Harper was kidnapped but I found her hard to take at first. Still it’s reasonable I suppose. I like Grey with his cold duty but obvious perceptiveness. Rhen who has gone through a lot of change to even be able to consider Harper is fascinating. I wonder if this is the last season because of the invasion?

...I fell for the man who made me beautiful to me.

Awww I love their love story.... then Sienna giving up her chance at life for Arlando and Ariel... was her chance to have the soul she longed for. Still the end end was long... really long.

This is totally capturing me! I really like Ariel and how sensible she is. And her friendship with the royal siblings. Her love of reading. Now a frogling has appeared and may be the princesses’ mate?! And they’re going to the snow!

The thing with the hedge was neat! Dolphin shapes with waves lol!

“My eyes stung from her kind words, and I fidgeted, not quite sure how to respond to such genuine praise of my work, not quite sure what to with such well-meaning words, how to hold them, how to take them with me.”

Loved this showing is Ariel’s personality.

Gotten better and I like Ariel but ALL THE TELLING!

Sooooooo much telling! She wants to save the prince from Sienna’s misguided songs.

Yeah I think you’ll be surprised by Ceren... still really good.

Talin is on her side but the king is almost dead...

Lady Melina and Ebb are neat women. Gosh she’s kind stupid saving Ceren... it was cool her killing the salindrin. The mountain makes all the people sick. It’s a fascinating idea. He killed Talia too? I figured that was her son t9 protect her since there wasn’t a body.

Yeah so Talin is a prince! But not THE prince... that guy is a jealous jerk and mega creepy. Precarious situations for sure!

Setup done... handed off to the king’s guard. Her mother was awful! Who would spread a rumor like that about their own daughter! I thought the sister extremely selfish TBH... but she did also put both herself and her sister on the paths they both preferred. I think it’s sad these people will be gone in 5 years... it’s really too much.

“You have been everything for me,” she said, her voice thick with emotion. “My arms when I wasn’t permitted to row, my legs when I wasn’t permitted to dive. My lips when I couldn’t defend myself from Mother. Now I need you to be my hands, Nor.”

Sisterly love.

Awww poor Zadie!

What a miracle?!

Okay so I really enjoyed the first half but this next 25% has almost all been talking heads. I do enjoy Joshua being around and his cowardly but miracle believing philosophy. Esther is now immortal due to a spell the woman cast on her. Joshua needs his pocket watch to do magic and his rabbit is an uncommonly strong fae.

So Esther talks to some voices that seem to be gods or fates. She’s being pulled back to life...

Hmmm. Sad, sad, sad. I had guessed about a Joshua and her “mother” but how horrible is it that her own mother sent her to the witch for some reason. Angela turned out to be a sweet girl too. Not sure how she’s going to redeem herself having reaped 13 souls. Funny though Luke zombie risen though he is doesn’t seem a bad fellow telling her the truth.

Hmmmm fascinating! Long, long, long dialogues but I kind of love that?! The protagonist needs to interject more though... still the kids in her class talk. Then we meet the blessers that we saw earlier who picked up her trail. All of these side characters have extraordinary strong presences which make having so many easier to keep separate.

13 - The plant creature and the black robed person are not on the same side! The black robed person is the one who created Fushi. He guided each form how to take back its memory. The tree thing was sent to steal him forms and weaken Fushi. He doesn’t understand the black robed guy but the man did save him. Woah! What an end!

For some reason he can’t take that form again! He has to go to wolf form. The being took his memory of the boy!!! So when he is whispered to take that form back to fight... he does. Creepy vine version of the boy.

12 - He uses his different forms for different needs. March he uses to gather fruit to eat. He eventually runs into the old lady who escaped with them, Pioran. She teaches him how to write and what things are called. It takes her a bit to convince him haha. But eventually he is talking more. They take a ship back to her land and head toward her lover’s. They cross into someone’s garden and they attack the boy,

11 - Ahhh March is dead... she doesn’t want Parona to kill herself and her spirit guides Fushi to stop her. He turns into the bear and carries her to Ninannah. They witness his transformation but Yanome is chasing them. So he heads into the forest. But he also takes another littler form with him... March.

10 - hmmm not sure what happened in this chapter... Parona gathers up a March... she appears to be dead. She jumps from the wagon and goes to Fushi who transforms into the boy. It looks like Hayse is burned? I don’t get that frame. Then suddenly March is reunited with her family. She even grows into a young woman, very pretty. It ends with a hound March asking Where am I?

9 - Hayse comes after them for Fushi of course. Parona fights but Marchs gets shot. Fushi doesn’t take kindly to that and turns into Oniguma!

8 - Parona has a plan to escape! It doesn’t work out quite like she planned but she’s out of the cell and getting March!

7 - Fushi gets shot and killed. He stays in his wolf form though... he digs under the wall of their cell and finds to Oniguma. March pulls an arrow out of it after dressing the wolf’s wounds and realizes they are both arrows. She is put in charge of caring for the bear with Fushi.

6 - March tries to send a letter home... neither she nor Parona realize how big Ninannah is. Hayase drugs their food. She tries to show off Fushi but he transforms and escapes after learning it hurds! Haha