ASHLEY POSTON????? HOW DARE YOU??? how DARE you write an evergreen classic!!! omg...like...y'all...elodie and the dark lord is simply the best book I've read this year. there is simply no words to explain how I feel right now. you know how you grow up with fairytales? this is exactly one.

the story of elodie and dark lord is a straight up fairytale. I'm obsessed I'm still thinking about them and thinking of them. i don't want to say much about them because you all deserve to experience them without any spoilers! but I'll tell you about some themes of the book as whole. elodie and dark lord heavily focuses on the narrator. it showcases how historical revisionism takes place and how the narrator/writer holds so much importance when conveying ANYTHING. speaking of conveying, this book has my favourite narrative choice. it's told in such a fun way that ties into the theme + elodie and dark lord as characters even more. it's probably the most interesting narrative choice I've seen executed perfectly. and the most important part, this book does NOT dip. anywhere! it stays consistently interesting and compelling right from the first page to the end. all in all, I'm obsessed. that's the only word i have.

and we all bow down to ashley poston for this. (I'm no big ashley poston fan, so imagine my surprise when it was this good??? pls don't stop writing fantasy/academia books ashley. your true calling is fantasy genre!!! a match made in heaven)