The biggest letdown for me was the ending of this book. In lieu of that, these interval flashback chapters were wonderful and exciting to read. It would have been wonderful to get another current POV, because I think Evie was a bit too naive to properly carry this story on her own. That was the biggest draw for me and I kept looking forward to those specific moments because I felt that's where the strongest features of the story lay. Evie's POV alone would have been the traditional expectation, so I thought it was great that Henning included flashbacks from the other characters to give us further background on each of them and on the story of how Anna died. It was also very clear that Nik loves Evie, so every interaction where Evie tried to force Nik and Annemette together was just uncomfortable to read.Īlthough I didn't necessarily love all aspects of the story, I did enjoy the way that Henning told this story. There were a lot of different directions that Henning could have taken Evie's story, and this avenue just felt bland to me. This concept seemed incredibly ill-timed in today's society, when trying to manipulate people into relationships just is not acceptable or understandable. She spends the majority of the book gazing at Annemette and dreaming of Anna being back, while blatantly trying to force her best friend into falling in love with her. However.wow, is Evie a bit of a boring mess. Henning does a good job of showing Evie as a young girl who simply misses her friend Anna and wants her best friend (the Crown Prince) to find love. Set in Denmark, Henning brings Evie's story to life. From plays like Wicked to stories like the Sea Witch, it's often the villains of classic stories that authors will choose to write about - and I love it! The Sea Witch tells the origins of the evil sea witch from the Little Mermaid fairy tale.
There's a lot of opportunity for an author to reintroduce a character in history, often a character's origin story. I love retellings of classic stories (especially in fairy tales) because there's often so much more to the story then was originally written.
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