Sometimes Bardugo just really CAPTURES something, oof
He didn’t know how precious a normal life could be, how easy it was to drift away from average. You started sleeping until noon, skipped one class, one day of school, lost one job, then another, forgot the way that normal people did things. You lost the language of ordinary life. And then, without meaning to, you crossed into a country from which you couldn’t return. You lived in a state where the ground always seemed to be slipping from beneath your feet, with no way back to someplace solid.
As someone in recovery with parts of my history a matter of public record, this was... Resonant.
Quick and cute. I love a monster who's down bad for a mouthy bitch. As a mouthy bitch monsterfucker myself, I appreciate the representation. Good series intro novella, will prolly read the first full length book at some point.