Disclaimer: I received a review copy for free via Netgalley, and am voluntarily leaving my honest thoughts. Many thanks to Tor for the opportunity!

I actually haven't read Goose Girl at all and didn't want to read it before reading this, but I feel like it wouldn't have mattered at all because T. Kingfisher really did an amazing job with the story and her writing here. Evangeline was a great villain, and it was easy to hate her, but I absolutely was hooked on the plot which was surprising to me (particularly when I'm now at the point where I usually DNF or knock down 1-2 stars anything with frustrating family members