This story was really hard for me to get into at first. The world building was fast and intense. Iam so glad I stuck with it though! I really love fantasy stories with mythology and folklore from other countries. Baba Jaga is probably one of my favorite stories. She has made appearances in many stories I've read recently including the ACOTAR series, the Witcher series, and is referenced in the John wick movies. The setting descriptions of Chicago were excellent. The character development was intense given how short the story actually is. We can see Ala and Dymitr grow so much as people dealing with the pain from their pasts. I've listened to a couple of audiobooks with Helen Laser narrating, and she definitely delivered again on this one! She's becoming one of my favorite narrators. James Fouhey and Tim Campbell also were easy to listen to. I usually dislike narrators doing accents, but all of these narrators sounded good-accents weren't cheesy or bad at all.