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Elizabeth Reviews: Small Favors

1/31/2022

Front cover of book Small Favors by Erin A. Craig. Cover image is flowers and smoke, with honey and bees around the title of the book. At top, quote reads:

Small Favors
by Erin A. Craig
Genre: YA, fairy-tale, fantasy
First published 2021

The flowers woke me first, quietly tiptoeing into my sleep and casting a sweet floral filter over everything. I felt myself smile, breathing in the soft bouquet.

Then came the smoke.

Black, burning, and unforgivably present, it wafted in with an acrid bite, curdling my dreams into nightmares. My eyes flashed open and instantly watered as I stared into the rafters.

Was that shouting?
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