I started this audiobook the same time I started on a puzzle I bought from Chicago. The puzzle was a big poster-sized thing, and I bought it with the intention of framing and putting up on my wall. It's more fun to somehow participate in the "making" of an image I've decided to put up, even if the participation was just putting together a puzzle. It's as close as I can get to drawing something for my wall nowadays, now that I've stopped drawing.
I like these kinds of fantasy stories, with familiar fairy tale characters, a voice that doesn't take itself too seriously. Jenny Greenteeth, the titular main character, is pretty cute. The way she misunderstands the human world is charming. She starts on this journey with Temperance at first out of sympathy for her, but the stakes get higher for Jenny herself as well.
I think what eventually made it tiring, though, is that while it started a little less seriously, it ended up being more serious, and that made it tedious to get through. I may have to be in the right mood for it, and the mood changed as the story changed. I didn't finish, but it's a book I'm willing to revisit and finish eventually.
I must've been irrevokably charmed by the tone in T. Kingfisher's Paladin series because I'm always kind of looking for it. I constantly want older characters who are a bit tired of all this shit, and consider their troubles without grandiosity. This is a tangent, but with the reprint of Swordheart, a book I surprisingly dislike a whole lot, it's been called a "new" book, when it came out years ago and isn't nearly as good as even the Clockwork Boys which, as far as I can tell, is the first of several books that's set in the same world. I just want more from that world, I keep not getting any, so I look for books that might be close, and am disappointed when it's not. I did this to myself.