I LOVED ITTTT. Okay I'm not even going to lie, I would give this book 4.5 stars instead of 5 because the beginning was sooooo slow. There were periods of peak interest for me like when Addie met Luc and made her initial pact, when Addie met Henry and also parts letting us know more about Henry's backstory and how he came to make his own pact with Luc.

BUT those were just moments of interest and the story quickly went back to being pretty meh for me after the that. The real fun part was when we found out when Henry was going to die and that was like in Part 6 (if I remember correctly) of the whole book. Part 6!

All I'll say is, if you're the kind of person who wants all the drama served upfront and doesn't like to wait, this book will absolutely not be your cup of tea. I'd say that if I read it in English, I probably wouldn't have spent so long reading it and would have gotten through the slice-of-life parts faster. That being said, I can see the necessity of the slice of life parts because they showed Addie's life with the curse and made her more real. They showed her experiences and thoughts, the dynamics of her relationship with Luc and everyone else she met, her family life prior to the curse. It just made it all the more real. A classic example of "show not tell" in writing (something I still struggle with