I just finished this book and I absolutely loved it, I really enjoy books that are open to interpretation and have unreliable narrators. It’ll definitely stay with me for a long time. Even though it’s setting seems like this kind of twisted magical fantasy world, I found a lot of the issues in Samantha’s life similar to mine. In the end with the “death” of Ava and this revelation that Samantha had created her to cope with her own loneliness (at least that was my interpretation), it kind of reminded me of how I feel very lonely and isolated a lot of the time. I spend too much time daydreaming that my life is much cooler and I have many more close friends and am well-loved by a ton of people. Even though I know that those people in my mind aren’t real, I couldn’t help but relate to her in a way I wasn’t really expecting to when I started the book. It’s so interesting how it sort of warps the lines of fantasy and reality and let’s the reader draw their own conclusions. I’m definitely going to read more of Mona Award’s books now.
by cinnamongirl444