RiverTheMoonwolf's Book Journey

The irony is not beyond him, that each week he must essentially crawl out of his own ass.

.... THE FUCK?

Ruby's story sure is... Something? I don't know, it just feels a tad lackluster and sort of random in comparison to Bernice's. Maybe that's intentional? What did y'all think?

Gretel's retelling is so fascinating, but I'm struggling to understand the ending. Did she break up with Jade? Was Jade in some way connected to her and her brother's captor?

Hey what was any of that? I feel like I got truly nothing out of this book. It only ever dipped its toe into fairy tale. Just riding the line between reality and fantasy. Which I get is kinda the point, but i don’t think it was written well enough for that. It felt like it had no idea what kind of book it wanted to be. And then it all just ended? Tied and Wrapped up in one of the messiest bows over ever seen.

Someone else made the connection about Will and Jake being named after the Brothers Grimm, and I totally think it’s right! It’s not confirmed that Jake from TV and Not-Will are the same person, but Not-Will’s actions (blergh) is definitely meant to connect with the weird voyeurism of the media running through the women’s stories. Not-Will planning to edit his secret camera show, and aiming to get the women to agree on the basis of “oh but it’ll help others”, preying on the fact that women are taught to always be helpful and non combative. I liked when he saw them getting away from his narrative control, he’s been trying to out them against each other the whole time in the name of future ratings and it’s awedul thatches twisting and already planning to doctor their signed agreements. I really home they take him down at the end. Is Media supposed to be the “wolf”, chewing them up alive?

He puts the lotion 🧴 on his skinnnn…. WEIRD!

I’m currently in the middle of Ashlee’s story and cannot for the life of me place what fairytale it’s supposed to be. I’ve heard some people say it’s Cinderella but that really doesn’t make sense to me. It just doesn’t feel like Cinderella’s story. Especially because I thought the other ones I’ve read so far were fairly obvious, given you know what the fairytales are previously.

On a different note, I really can’t decide how I feel about this book. At the beginning, it really strongly gave me the vibes of the Wayward Children series (which I absolutely love) but much darker and much more adult. Now I’m really not sure. I’m going to keep reading because I’m mostly enjoying reading it, it just doesn’t feel like it really has a point yet?