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The extra half point is solely because I'm absolutely onboard with supporting this woman's wrongs. And after everything that came to pass in this one, which somehow felt worse than book one, she deserves all the wrongs she wants.

Mostly because I'm exhausted by everyone. I'll admit, some of this can be attributed by the constant rehashing, even within the same conversation, of arguments or beliefs or worries. And then, later, we'd revisit things once again as if it hadn't been done to death already. It made the telling of the story, navigating the motivations of the characters, moving the plot forward, glacial. The pacing was so slow it was almost non-existent. I feel like this could've been done better; that we could've had a more compelling and engaging retelling with everything we know, the familiar paths, just totally (mostly) flipped. Instead, it's a lot of a pain with little reward.

I started to feel so disheartened that I didn't think I would be bothering with book three but the end brought me back to Team le Fay and I want to see her take them all down. Yes, you heard me, all of them. So, yeah, I'll be reading on.

2.5 stars

** I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher (thank you!) in exchange for an honest review. **

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