The premise is amazing and Hall’s writing, as always, is very fast-paced and full of humor. Mostly, though, this didn’t work for me. I need a lot more intimacy in romance—I need to be in the characters’ heads and get a lot more insight into their evolving feelings, so one POV is already a reach for me. This one, with the narrator being a supernatural being watching the two love interests, is a bit too far removed for me.

And it really didn’t help me like Maelys, or understand why I should care about her curse when she’s so entitled and does so little to show Georgiana she trusts her beyond demanding her help and her complete honesty again and again. I honestly couldn’t figure out why Georgiana liked Maelys, never mind was attracted to her.

Thank you to the publisher for allowing me to read this eARC.

It was just okay, nothing super unique but pretty forgettable.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this digital arc in exchange for my honest review.

Mortal Follies was an enchanting read full of humor, angst, and romance. I am not generally a fan of omniscient narrators and it was distracting at first. One of my favorite things about Alexis Hall's writing is the way he writes first-person POV, so I was a bit disappointed to be missing out on that. However, once I got used to it, I quite enjoyed it. It was creative, fit well with the story, and was quite often entertaining.

I did enjoy the story. But it felt like two separate stories. The main conflict is resolved halfway through, then we meander for several chapters with Maelys and Lady Georgianna's hot-and-cold relationship, and then a brand new conflict is tossed into the mix that was hardly hinted at short of us knowing something mysterious and likely mystical had happened to Lady Georgianna's family.

The story seemed to drag a bit -- particularly the back and forth between Maelys and Lady Georgianna. And while the two conflicts did technically somewhat converge due to the same deity being involved, I still felt a bit of whiplash going from one right into another in the same story.

Aside from the narrator, Miss Bickle was by far my favorite character. I do hope she gets her own story at some point. Although I do hope the plot jumping stays within Mortal Follies.

All in all, it was entertaining, but not something I would reread.

Thank you so much to Netgalley, Alexis Hall, and Del Rey for the opportunity to read and review this book as an ARC! First of all, we have to talk about how gorgeous this cover is- I am ENTHRALLED with the cover art and can't wait to get my hands on a physical copy! Besides the physical beauty of this book, the content was delicious. I did not expect to love this book as much as I did, but I was completely obsessed. I loved Alexis Hall's writing style and humor throughout the book and found the character interactions really sweet, very relatable, and honestly just funny. The romance, (SAPPHIC!!!) although not the main focus, was so sweet in this book and I was most certainly NOT expecting THAT scene between Mae & Georgiana... you know the one I'm talking about. I also loved that this story is told from the point of view of an external character- I found the commentary really entertaining on that front. I will say, I was a bit disappointed with the very very ending, and I wish the ending would have been a bit more drawn out, but I still rated this four stars for how much I enjoyed everything else. I will absolutely be purchasing a physical copy and rereading in the future. I definitely recommend this one!

This was a frothy, fun romance from Alexis Hall. The author was true to the time period in which the novel took place.

The narrator was a bit wordy which made reading a bit tedious .However, the main characters were charmingly eccentric.

Thanks to Netgalley, the publishers and the author for the opportunity to reas this ARC. This is my honest revire.

I’ve always been a fan of Alexis Hall’s work and thoroughly enjoyed Mortal Follies. I feel like this the type of book you have to be in a certain mood to read. It’s a concentration of what I feel is Hall’s writing style. It’s very wordy, full of tangents and wise-cracking jokes. Mortal Follies was unexpectedly funny, I caught myself giggling a couple times throughout the book. I really enjoyed the narration of the story although there was some sections where I felt like it pulled you out of the story.

Overall, Mortal Follies was a fun and engaging read. I cannot wait to read more from Alexis Hall.

3.5/5 stars! Listen; I really enjoy books by this author and that combined with the cover made this a must-read for me. I liked the premise of this story and I chuckled throughout reading it. My concern with the story was the narration by the god entity was extremely wordy. I feel like it was intentional but it slowed down the whole story and made it hard to stay engaged in the story. I would get going and get excited and then that character would be all "as one might if one were to..." and I fell out of the story. Overall, still a very entertaining story; the writing style just wasn't for me.

I received an advance review copy for free through NetGalley, and I am leaving this review voluntarily

What an adorable story!! The true gem here isn't even the story itself, but the narrator! It felt as if I was watching a DreamWorks movie in my head and the story was told by a fairy sitting on my shoulder. I think this narrator would actually be amazing to depict even a collection of short stories?! This was such a fun read and the romance was so cute.