This is one of the most beautiful, original adult novels I've read in a long time. It has a level of magic, whimsy, and darkness I wasn't sure was available outside of YA literature anymore, or was banned to specific genres, labeled before being given a chance. The language in this novel was beautiful and poetic. I don't know that I've been that pulled in by description in a long time, everything was vivid and yet your imagination was free to add its own flourishes. 
 Defiantly one of my favorites, if not my favorite, book of the summer so far.