2.5/5 
 This book was weird. I know the tale it's based on but even with that background knowledge I found the book to be very odd. I feel there could have been better world building in the beginning and better pacing. We were thrown a lot of information very quickly and in an odd way. I'd still say the first half of the book was better than the second half. 
 I liked Vassa a lot and the BY set-up was really cool but sometimes it was hard to follow what was happening in the book, especially when all of the dreaming happened. The book was intriguing but I was confused a lot of the time and near the end I was skimming pages. 
 I still appreciate the creativity and originality that went into the book but could have done with less "what is happening?" moments.