#oh natasha you are such a bad person and unreliable narrator trying to justify everything

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oh yes i finished the kingdom of sweets. its an interesting take on the nutcracker story and definitely takes a lot of liberties and gives more of a horror vibe. really fun read for the most part up until the epilogue which felt like the author shoehorned 15 historical events and figures into 15 pages because they could. the final chapter was still really nice though and i think tied everything together nicely, but the pacing of the rest of the epilogue was bad enough to drag my rating down to 3.5 stars

#shay speaks #the kingdom of sweets #erika johansen #bookblr #booklr #book review #really informal review this time but ehhhhhhh #also i wish we got years with the chapters instead of One mention of it being 1905 in the middle of the book and having to figure it out #like either leave it vague or use dates consistently please do not throw one single date in there and then never again #but thats more of a minor thing compared to the epilogue. imo anyway #oh natasha you are such a bad person and unreliable narrator trying to justify everything #but its okay #i support womens wrongs etc