Gemma lives with her mother in an isolated antique shop in Michigan, near a small patch of woods that conceals an enchanted gateway to fairyland. She knows she’s not supposed to go into the woods – her mother Virginia has warned her multiple times about the monsters that lurk there – and yet defiantly, curiously, she goes anyway.

I need to admit here that the only reason why I read this book is because I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book on Tik Tok. And after reading this book I gotta admit that this book doesn’t live up to the hype it has on the Tik Tok. 

The storyline in this book is very hard to get into because the storyline is very hard to get into. I personally found it to be very confusing because I didn’t know what was happening in this book as I was reading it because the storyline seemed all over the place in this book.

The pacing in this book was very very slow. The plot would take forever to go anywhere which really annoyed me because of how slow this book is. I don’t even know what the main plot in this book was, because the plot so slow and it kept switching directions very frequently.

In this book we get 2 different POVs which made me even more confused as I was reading this book. Because both of these POVs sounded very similar to me personally and because of it I had a really hard time telling the POVs apart.

The writing style here was very simple here. Almost too simple. As if it was meant for a elementary school student to read it. But it wouldn’t make sense but Goodreads ranks this book as “adult” category book.

The characters in this book seemed to me like the same character but split into multiple characters instead of being one good character.

All the characters in this book seemed very similar, and for the most part had the same thoughts and opinions which made it very hard for me to tell them apart from each other.

To be very honest here, this book didn’t feel like a fantasy book. It felt more like a fiction book because of how little fantasy elements this book had. Actually this book had none fantasy elements to make it a “fantasy” book.

I Give This Book 1 / 5