I love Bob. Bob would probably melt my skin off if I ever dared approach, but that's what makes it loveable.

When I read a book that is clearly meant for a younger audience I try to look at it not from how much it satisfies me personally, but rather how much enjoyment a child would get from it. For this book, I can confidently say that not only that it is supremely fun, but also some valuable lessons. I appreciated how it was a story about kids being heroes and also touched on more serious aspects and social issues that you might not think about or encounter in middle school. It's not much, but just enough to get you thinking.

The book is good and cute read. I feel like it would a great gift to give to any kids/niblings/cousins or any other child who likes to read.

While at first the stories in this collection might seem unrelated, they all connect and share a unified theme about womanhood and life. I've read a novella by Angela Slatter set in the same universe before, which I enjoyed, so I was not surprised that I liked this one as well. I really like the way the stories emulate fairy tales in tone and theme and yet ground the reader by showing the perspective of the female characters. Oftentimes in fairy tales, the characters are whimsical and feel distant from us, but here their journey feels more personal.

The disadvantage, for me, of the collection format is that it does become repetitive. There were some points were I started to get a bit tired of the woman makes bad decision involving a man hook. I get that it is a main theme here, but having it happen with basically every other character started to lose me a little.

Overall I enjoyed myself reading this and I am curious to read the other stories in the series!

This was a wild ride. I never know what to expect when reading a Locked Tomb book and yet I'm always seated and reading like a maniac.

Nona herself was amazing and so were pretty much all the characters we meet, but she is addicting. I would say that nothing much happens in the beginning of the book, but seeing her perspective on everything mundane that she does is so much fun and actually filled with insight and clues for the story.

I have a lot of thoughts that I don't feel like I can put in just one review without making it an essay, but I can say that I will be thinking about this book for a looong time (maybe until Alecto comes out).