(Everyone is going to hate me) 
 Leaving this unrated for now... I just couldn't get into it for the life of me. 
 Updated: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME. Honestly. 
 Full review originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide: For On the Same Page's September post, we read The Goose Girl which is one of Amy's favorite books. She had read it and loved it but Alyssa and I have never read it so we chose it as one of Amy's picks! We all have fairly similar reading tastes with minor variations here and there so even though THE GOOSE GIRL wasn't really on my radar before this, I was hoping I would love it just as much as Amy did! 
 Fairy tale adaptations can be a tricky thing for me. I love SO many retellings and some of them are actually some of my favorite books/series -- but I think in order for me to really fall in love with a fairy tale, I'm usually hooked into that modern twist as well. Looking back on the book, I think I figured out and actually ended up using that for this month's post as a sort of discussion! Unfortunately, it was just a combination of very, very little things that I've discovered make a big difference for me as a reader and I was SO upset that this combination of elements just didn't work for me. 
 I feel like SUCH a black sheep. I think just about everyone I'm friends with on Goodreads who has read this book has given it four or five stars and I really, really tried but I just wasn't getting along with THE GOOSE GIRL. It was really general tone of the book combined with setting/time period and for some reason that combination really just doesn't seem to work for me in anything I read. (I had a similar experience with Cruel Beauty which I didn't realize was sort of the same deal going on until just now. (And Alyssa and Amy also loved it while I did not so maybe I should have seen this coming?) It's not a bad book. It's not bad writing. This was really, truly "It's not you -- it's me." The whole talking-to-animals thing just generally doesn't work for me either so that was just one more thing that was thrown into the mix (and a big part of the story)! 
 I actually did a full discussion on why the book didn't work for me so I won't really rehash it here (even though this is my review) so really think of this as more of a collection of thoughts than a review (and see the previous post for details)! I'm so sad I couldn't get into this but the good thing is that Amy knows and she's not disowning me or phasing me out of the friend group. (She promised.)