I really wanted to love this book but I just didn't. It was so hard to get into. The premise was good. The characters were likable and the plot was enticing but it just did not hold my attention. I found myself always anxious to get to the next chapter hoping that something big would happen. The intensity started to pick up by the middle of the book but not enough that I was really enchanted by it. I should have been. It was about fairies and horned princes and monsters of sorrow lose on a town and a mortal girl valiantly trying to save her world. What could be more magical and enthralling? Not much but I guess it could have been told in a more captivating way. 
 There are some books by Holly Black that I have loved and some that I have just felt were ehhh. The Coldest Girl in Cold Town and the Curse Worker books were amazing. Tithe and Doll Bones were both ehh. I was really hoping this book wouldn't fall into the ehh category but unfortunately it did.