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Premise: the characters from fairy tales have left their homeland and are living in the modern world. There's a crime, and some characters try to solve it.

And you know? It works. I was skeptical, I admit, but it was fun to read. I'd recommend it and pick up the second in the series, for sure.

This was an enjoyable read and a pretty cool perspective on a story I remember from childhood. (I kept thinking of the Oz miniseries that recently showed on SciFi, though!) I wanted to stop before the end, because, of course, I was sympathetic to the main character, and we all know how she ends up... But I couldn't actually put it down until the last page.

It's always worthwhile to explore the meaning of good and evil, as well as our human tendency to believe the first side of the story we hear. In that light, and because it is well-written, I would recommend this book to others.

Not as compelling as Blindness (to which it is something of a sequel) was, but perhaps more timely, what with recent events and an upcoming election. I found the main premise of the book difficult to buy into, but it still seemed to contain a lot of worthwhile commentary on politics and human nature.

You know... I wrote that before I finished it. I didn't like the end of the book at all and would now no longer recommend it. Stop with Blindness. Really.

Everything I had ever been told about this book, before deciding to read it myself, turned out to have been misleading.

I didn't really expect to like it.

I really didn't expect to want to read the sequels.

And yet, here we are.

The language is lush, sometimes almost distractingly so. The political intrigue is solid. The protagonist and primary side characters have depth, and they change over the course of the book. The villains are satisfying, solidly hatable without being caricatures. The sad parts are heartbreaking.

All in all, a very satisfying read.