This novella is exceptional.  The author immediately throws you into her dark world all innocent and unaware. You won’t stay that way for long. It might take a moment to get your bearings but once you do it’s going to be very hard to do anything else but finish every word of this story.

I was going to write up the standard review with a little plot outline and all that but I’ve decided  don’t want to tell you anything about the plot because I went in completely blind and it shocked me. It horrified me with its cringy body horror and I think you all deserve that experience too! You’ll have to read it and discover it for yourself.

What I will say is that at its heart it’s about betrayal. Betrayal from those who should love you no matter what and those who you meet along the way who aren’t always who they pretend to be. It’s about a society so focused on appearance and putting on airs and receiving the best magic that they don’t stop to think about the true cost of any of it. It’s about what happens when people, hairy or no (these people are furry and have tails and I love the idea of them!), are so focused on having the best  “thing” that they overlook basic decency and can’t be bothered to think about the true cost.

There are some images here that won’t leave my brain and that’s a good thing because that means it moved me. This story is magical and dreamy and also filled with pain, physical and emotional, trauma and secrets and if you don’t quickly grow to care for Angora I’ll have to give you the side-eye forever!

I can’t recommend this story highly enough. When my paper copy arrives (I read the ebook)  I will hold it close forever and I don’t do that with too many books. It was SO freaking good and I know I don’t have the words to properly convey how much I loved this beautifully brutal morbid fairytale of a story so I’ll be here screaming at everyone to READ IT, READ IT NOW! instead.