Enjoyable. Interesting characters and plot and not like other stories I've read. Not spicy.
What I find really special about this author is that she makes interesting side characters. She has a talent for making small characters come to life and making the reader quickly come to care for them. I wouldn't mind seeing spin off stories about them (Jess, Selma, Accalia, Bobby, Ferris, etc. I'd even be interested in Seamus. And Nora's parents)
Not overly complicated story. It's on the lighter side. By "lighter" I mean there was no doubt in my mind about the happily ever after, even though there is some true evil afoot. And, despite her curse, things seem to go her way. (Example: the dragon could have easily interpreted her actions as threatening or trying to steal the egg. Instead the opposite happened.) In addition, the story doesn't romanticize or over-dramatize any cruelty or other negative bits.
Having finished the series, there are some details from earlier that still don't make sense to me. Particularly comments from people like Selma (and others) who express a feeling of debt or regret for not helping jinn ancestors. But that would have been before her time, so I don't know really understand...I feel like I'm missing something.
One thing that I found hard to believe, is if this curse is so cruel/miserable, why doesn't she consider killing herself? If she feels so much guilt over her victims, I felt it would be in her nature to struggle with that. Every time Rafe calls her selfish, I was expecting her to at least internally acknowledge how her survival comes at the price of many innocent lives. From her point of view, it's hard to imagine there's much incentive to stick it out since (to her knowledge) the only reward for sticking it out to the end is a gruesome death.
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