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I received an arc of this book by being subscribed to Erin Fulmer's newsletter.

I only got it last week and I don't have any reading time right now, but I made time for this! I enjoyed Lily's adventures in her inaugural story, Cambion's Law. I wanted to see what she would get up to and how the epilogue of that book played out.

Fulmer is great at introducing all the characters that are of importance early-on, and the villain ends up being a guessing game the whole way through. I'm not always sure about Lily's leaps of logic and at certain points, I was sure she had the wrong end of the stick (sometimes she did but sometimes I was wrong.)

The not-boyfriend story continues from book 1 (how not? City Owl is a Romance publisher.) Probably the thing I liked least about the story was the twist included about Sebastian's current status.

Overall, this is a fun, relatively fast read where the worldbuilding around this cambion is engaging and continually expanding.

The Epilogue of this book has me on the edge of my seat for book 3! (Please tell me there's a book 3 in the works.)

This is a relatively fast read. There's a lot you can skim.

It's getting a 3-star review because I like the concept. However, in its execution this book wasn't for me. I'm not sure who it's for, to be honest. I could go into why, but I'm not sure that really helps anybody because the why's feel personal and not generic.

I will say every positive review I've read of this book implies I should already know who Matt Haig is, and I have aboslutely no clue who he is, even after googling. That's probably the most generic issue I have - that the book seems to be sold on his name recognitition to a good degree and I don't recognize his name.

So, again, it's an okay book. I wouldn't recommend it because I don't know who it's for, probably people who already like Matt Haig and would read it anyway.

I was one of the rare individuals who loved Beowulf when I read it in high school literature class. We read a couple translations next to a copy of the original work.

When I read a paragraph of this new translation during a book discussion, I immediately picked up the new translation via audio.

Right now, I can't read. Since January, I've had TWO books I'd been so excited to get my hands on for nearly a year prior. I've read one chapter, total.

The introduction by the author was worth it, alone. Then ...

Listening to this version of Beowulf was like listening to contemporary music. Lots of fun, a good story, and still feels true to what I read years ago. It's well worth the 3.5 hour listen (after the 30 minute author intro which is also a good listen.) If you like your audiobooks faster, I'm not sure this is one to speed up. The rhythm and meter is important.

I highly, highly, highly recommend this story. I will be eventually reading it and there's a BBC production of it that I'm going to listen to as well.