I don't normally write reviews because I feel like an inarticulate mess but this book deserves a review. At the beginning I was kind of doubtful because I didn't know in what direction it was going and if I'd end up slowly making my way through exposition after exposition and a plot that is completely overpowered by it (which is something that, in my experience, tends to happen often in the fantasy genre). But I was positively surprised and, truth be told, what I most feared in the beginning ended up being one of my favourite aspects of the story: Namely the world building. The world created in Thornfruit brings something refreshingly new to what I've come to expect from fantasy novels and while it admittedly can be quite confusing, I was intrigued by it and wanted to learn more. The language in the story helped too, whether it was just the names or the subtle hints of other languages that exist in the universe, it made the world much more real to me than I'd have expected. And I won't really get into plot or characters, here, I enjoyed both, but that's not why I loved reading this so much. I am also not the most critical reader so someone else might be bothered by things I didn't even notice. But I was captivated and, personally speaking, that's all I really need from a book. So, my final words? Just read it. (If you want to.)