I don't really want to say anything about this book because I feel it would spoil the experience. Just read it. It's short and doesn't require reading anything before it. ( )

- HIGHLY UNPREDICTABLE
- MIND-BLOWING ENDING
- BEAUTIFUL WRITING
- THE SUSPENSE IS NERVE-WRACKING
- I GOT SWEPT INTO IT! ( )

2021 Winter (February);

2021 Grishaverse Show Prep Read/Reread in preparation for the tv show dropping in late April 2021. I still love so, so much how much this story pulls the carpet out from under all expectations around 'The Witch,' 'The Stepmother' and 'The Monster.' This is harrowing but so gorgeous, and I like where everything is left in the ending.

2016;
The Witch of Duva is another of those surprise-ending stories, she is so good at, where you're brows go up and your mouth falls open in such horror and astonishment before the ending, but I love how this one ends for the young girl, too. I love how we all get together to feel the same way about things that are turned on their head (from the stepmother to the missing girls, to the witch herself, and magic as it is). This was masterfully done. ( )

This gave me. All. The. Chills.
In broad daylight.
I really liked it.
So delightfully creepy chills. ( )

《There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls.》

OMG this was so fucking creepy!
It was such a good retelling of Hansel and Gretel, I can't even.

As you can see I'm sold, I want to start the Grisha trilogy ASAP. ( )