The Library of Fates

“Girl, who you are isn’t about who gave birth to you or who raised you. One finds out who he or she is over the course of a life.”
“How do I do that?”
“Through your actions, through your choices.”

This story has the dreamy, hazy quality of a fairy tale. Our heroine is courageous and more powerful than she knows, and all the young men are handsome and selfless. Even the bad guy gets a sympathetic backstory. I appreciated the interweaving of myth and gods, but overall it’s not my preferred sort of story. I like my YA fantasies a little darker and grittier. (My YA book boyfriends are scheming, limping Kaz Brekker and scarred sociopath Jorg Ancrath) But I love the cover, and the ending was unique and surprising.