2 stars. 
 It was not what I was expecting. It was boring. I tried so hard to reel into the story. 
 I may be the only being in this universe who didn't love this book. 
 I am all for the fairy tale retellings but I don't know what went wrong with this. I don't even know why picked it up. The cover design was just so enticing and the blurb felt pretty good. And it is a 'Beauty and The Beast' fairy retelling with a greek mythological backdrop with demons. It was the perfect recipe. I don't know what went wrong. 
 Maybe I cringed a little when Nyx's-the Mc-husband aka the evil ruler is god's knows how many centuries old and already had married and widower of seven or eight wives. Or for that matter you don't kiss a shadow you just met a few hours ago. Hell I like a cruel little main character who is ready to go all demonic but c'mon something seriously went wrong in this. 
 The Plus-the writing was beautiful and the only reason I gave it two stars. 
 The whole or most of the book was based on Nyx to be stuck in a house with no way of going out. I am a little claustrophobic so reading the book made me feel so. So I couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. 
 Maybe I will have to read to again or maybe not. I was not at all satisfied by the story. I am generally a person who literally lives off Fantasy genre. Like I don't even need food give me a bunch of fantasy genre books and I am all set. And that is saying something because I just found out my first book of fantasy genre which I don't like at all.