This.
This is an incredible and unique story. I'm very much enjoying it and I really cannot, for the life of me, understand why more people aren't reading it. It's sweet, wholesome most of the time, with action, and family intrigue, with a romance plot that isn't plagued only with misunderstanding. The walls up aren't arbitrary and I have not once found myself yelling at the characters over flaws the author has.
STOP WHAT YOU'RE READING AND READ THIS!
This story is as real as it is fucked up. It's fantastical and dark. The art is absolutely gorgeous despite how obviously unrealistic it is; but where that's true in the art, it is made up in how realistically disturbing the more human characters go about conducting themselves.
This is not your mom's childhood's Disney movie. It's gritty, dark, and damaging, though you would never guess if all you could see were the illustrations.
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