Starting 2025 out strong with a terrible book. I love that for me. Anyways, whoever decided to recommend this to people who liked Barbie: Fairytopia, I’m coming for your kneecaps and is frankly making me reconsider reading any of the other books on your list. This book is ACOTAR but a little to the left with barely enough changed. The one unique world-building thing this book has is library pixies, otherwise it’s just an ACOTAR/ACOSF remake but somehow worse in every way. Also ‘Grimoricon’ should NEVER have gotten past an editor. That is a terrible name. The prose of this novel is inconsistent: at times it struggles to emulate high fantasy prose works, like Lord of the Rings, and at others, it is glaringly contemporary (one of the characters says ‘Thatta girl’). Every character had little personality that was unique to them with anything interesting being chalked up to a rip off of other fae romantasy novels out there.