Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.
1st book of 2022
Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid’s voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy’s bidding but only for a terrible price.
Trigger Warning
Death, murder, sexual assault, child abuse, toxic relationship, animal death, blood
Rating
none
Review
This is my first book of the year 2022, and I’m happy to have started with it.
In this book, you have a collection of tales from different parts of the world of the Grishaverse. What I like the most is how you can read this book from time to time as they are short and fast to read.
Even if you sometimes have complex topics like betrayal, revenge, etc., the way it’s written makes you dive into it and want to know how those stories end. The element that makes it also easy to read, it’s the settings. You find some pieces from tales, myths, etc., that we know from childhood. So, the reader to have a mix of old and new, and this combination is perfect.
The drawings are fantastic. They are well-thought as they evolve on each page of the tales. As the story unwinds, the drawings take a lot more space until it makes a border. However, the most interesting is the last two pages of the tales, as you have an illustration of a scene of the stories. The colour scheme is really narrow, so the drawings have a lot of impacts.
A good companion book to the grishaverse is not mandatory, but if you want more insight into this world, go for it.
Liz.
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