Either way, I knew I was going to read the story at the end of the day. In fact, just due to my associations for the word Briar and my knowledge that Poston has done retellings in the past, I kind of expected this to be a retelling of Sleeping Beauty. Considering I had only ever read Poston’s Once Upon a Con series, I genuinely wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Among the Beasts & Briars. I remember feeling excited when I realized that this was written by an author whose books I’d genuinely enjoyed in the past. I saw the fox on this cover and, despite my NetGalley ban, instantly requested it without any further information. The truth is…I picked this book up for the fox. Now, I’m still massively in love with Marissa Meyer’s Cress and The Lunar Chronicles, but this book? It’s right up there with those ones for me. In fact, something that blew my mind completely out of the water and everything else is the fact that I fell so in love with this book I actually found myself referring to it as my new favorite book. I said it with Bookish and the Beast some months ago and I’m saying it with Among the Beasts & Briars now. But somehow they just keep getting better and better. And the funny thing is that the books she writes always have some sort of element to them that would typically make me steer clear away from it. I swear, it’s as though every single time I read a new Ashley Poston novel, I fall more and more in love.
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