*note: a lot of the criticisms i have for this book can be done well, but in this book it was not.

i was so close to DNFing, luckily for you i just DNFed another book so i thought I'd push through this one.

- mc is so annoying and unlikeable
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apparently everyone is out to get her, and even the kind people MUST have other motives. this isn't unrealistic, but this book doesn't really show how badly people are being unkind to her. everything that is showed is very juvenile and meh.

- so apparently her family is shunned, but some still make fun of her and acknowledge her??
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winnie advances through the trials through other people/entities helping her, she barely does anything for herself. yea she's smart, but her knowledge of the nightmares don't really translate to being clever.

- she blames everyone else for following rules that their family is shunned... 
- the luminaries blames the mc's family for not knowing the dad was a witch/traitor and shuns them, but they were the ones that vetted him??
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winnie was shunned and literally calls herself the girl who cried wolf, and wonders why no one is listening to her

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she gets so angry at everyone for something her father did to her, and when her father sends clues. she doesnt do anything about them (at first). dumb.

- so... why is Jay the "bad boy" of Hemlock Falls?
- the way this book tells us information about supernatural creatures is with a main character that can basically recite book descriptions of them. ew
- talk about bland romance book
- the luminaries are divided in to groups names after days of the week, and that defines them. huh

the reveal at the end with

her dad being framed

. i predicted something odd was going on, but i don't feel like this book led to that conclusion all that well. honestly i wish more time was spend on finding out what really happened with that.