Mini Review Originally Posted On The Sassy Book Geek 
 I really wanted to love this story and I really want to love Holly Black's books in general as well. Sadly this just doesn't seem to be the case as her writing style doesn't suite me at all. 
 I thought the premise, the potential world building, and the whole "fairy prince eternally sleeping inside a glass coffin" thing to sound very, very interesting! Unfortunately those are really the only good things I have to say about this book, I found the execution to be very poorly done. 
 The world building, such potential! It could have been amazing with all of the fae, monsters, and magic! Sadly it was extremely lacking and completely underdeveloped I was left feeling more confused than when I started the book initially. I wanted more information to be provided because the world building easily could have been this book's strongest point. 
 The overall plot was extremely messy and as I've already said, confusing and underdeveloped. The pacing was slow and I gave into boredom many a time, this book came close to a DNF. 
 The characters were "meh". Not terrible but also not memorable in any way, much like this book in general. Was it horrible? No, I can see why it appeals to many other people. Was it bad? Yes.