There's a lot about this book that I think was pretty good and, if I wasn't such a wuss, I probably would have really enjoyed it but I don't deal well with gruesome. Perhaps, then, it is not fair for me to give it a lower score (though 3 certainly doesn't mean 'bad') but I really think this concept had the potential to be something really wonderful and instead it's just quite horrible. I feel like a lot of people will probably struggle with this but I can't be sure. To be fair, it is the middle of the night and I'm always a lot more wimpish in the middle of the night so maybe I'll decide in the morning that actually it's not that horrible at all and it's a great book. I definitely think there were some strong points in there - it's a pretty original concept and I've not read a book about fairies that wasn't aimed at children before so that's something new. Also, I think I liked the characters but maybe they could have been fleshed out a bit more? I definitely like the inclusion of a disabled character who's perfectly capable of holding her own, so that's a definite positive.