Thus Far

Technically, I finished the first one at the very end of 2022… but it was after Christmas, so it feels close enough to 2023 to me. 😉 This was such a beautiful, atmospheric story. The writing made it feel like a fairytale, that gossamer dreamscape of not-quite real, like the story is whispered on a winter night as the waves lull you to sleep. The characters all had such beautiful, intricate backstories, and with so many different pieces moving, I was always half-questioning what was real and what was a story within the story.  My one issue with that is that the book is pretty slow moving, so even though I would be engaged while reading it, I could easily put the book down and not come back for a couple of days. I wanted to know how everything came together, but there wasn't an urgency of need to know. Also, since we were engaging with so many different stories at once, I was unsure how—if at all—all of those pieces would come together. But those concerns were assuaged by th