This book wasn't anything like I was expecting, but in a good way. I didn't think it would be quite so . . . modern? Like maybe the town Mira was going back to would somehow have an 1800s feel to it and the fairy tale people would totally stand out. But all the teenagers who bore curses were just like regular people that had to abide by certain rules. 
 Sometimes these curses are meant to be good, like a gift, if it is bestowed by a good fairy, like Mira's godmothers, Elsa and Bliss. But other times the curses are bad, bestowed by evil fairies. Most of the people in Kill Me softly suffered from their curse - I know I wouldn't want to be Sleeping Beauty or Snow White; pricking my finger or eating a poison apple and falling asleep for a hundred years, being totally dependant on some boy with a prince curse, does not appeal to me. I thought the whole idea of the novel was pretty original, and I love it when authors do something different. It gets boring reading the same summary of every other book I read. But what made this really special to me was that I love fairy tales, and I've read a whole lot of different renditions and takes on them. So when I find something that hasn't really been done before, I'm all over it. 
 As a protagonist, I liked Mira, even though she made some pretty stupid decisions. When she meets who she believes is a good love interest, Felix (who, by the way, is twenty one, and Mira is almost sixteen, ew), I can understand her being taken in by his kindness and generosity in the beginning. But as time went by and she got to know Blue - Felix's jerky brother - and his friends (who are all cursed in some way) she completely ignores all their warnings that Felix is not a good person to get to know. I also understand why Mira was defensive of him, but at the same time I think she should have realized that Blue is Felix's brother. Therefore, it is wise to assume that Blue knows Felix a little better than Mira does, who has known him for, let's say, a couple weeks. If I had a buttload of people warning me away from someone, it might make me a little suspicious. So, for the first half the of book, I felt like yelling, "Open you eyes, Mira!" 
 And another thing. When Mira discovers what Romantics are - the curse she knows both Felix and Blue have - she is frightened, obviously, but she never approaches Felix and tells him what she knows, and she continuously makes excuses for him throughout the novel. If I knew that some guy had this big secret that he KNEW would hurt me, kill me, and he still did it anyway, little red flags would be going off in my mind. Other than the whole Felix thing, I thought Mira was smart and capable. 
 The book made me laugh a few times, as it has a charming cast of characters. So even though the tone of the book is relatively dark, there's still some comic relief, which I love. The pacing was good; I never really got bored and felt the need to read something else. It was really interesting how Sarah Cross incorporated age old fairy tales into real life modren people - and I don't mean just the fluffy Disney movie fairy tales, I mean some of the Grimm ones where Cinderella's stepsisters cut off bits of their feet. 
 The cover of Kill Me Softly fits the book brilliantly, so props to whoever designed it.