Like any great book, within the first few pages, I understood the world, and was cheering for Jude in her adventures and challenges. It was a great book and I look forward to reading more by Holly Black. Thank you!

Based on the excerpt this seems to be a fine Holly Black faerie book. There are a lot of similarities between them to me. I enjoy them all when I do read them, but I wouldn't necessarily seek them out. I think if they had been around when I was a teen, I would have loved them very much.

I read the excerpt, and there are some interesting ideas there, but it wasn't compelling enough to make me want to seek out the book to finish it. The characters felt flat and I didn't really care enough about what happened to any of them to keep going.

Thank you for providing an excerpt of this title for Hugo voting! It’s much appreciated and super helpful.