I loved the writing in this book. In the woods, it felt like prose. Nothing was really happening and I didn't care because it was all so pretty. 
 But.... Nothing was happening. Nothing was happening A LOT. The pacing was awful, there wasn't much point to the novel at all, and I'm not positive there actually was a plot. 
 I was super confused from the beginning. You know our MC lives with her gramps and somehow is related to the king and a dragon? The king is a man and the dragon has boy parts, so... This doesn't actually get explained for several chapters, and was kind of irritating. 
 Also, can someone explain some stuff for me? Who was the third name on the wall? Who is the lady? Do we know The Lady? I felt like I was missing something and we were supposed to have an Ah ha! moment and I just missed it. At first I thought the Lady was the dead princess mom, but she was there before princess mom dies, so... 
 I didn't feel like what small plot there was got resolved well and I'm left scratching my head. 
 The writing though, was gorgeous. I found Marni's speech jarring against the delicate prose that went into the world building. I wouldn't recommend this book on that alone, but the authors other books might be worth checking out because of it.