

I read it recently and I liked it but I felt I would have been confused at the beginning had I not seen the show first. The early chapters keep what’s happening kind of mysterious. It’s about a third of the way in we find out about the ritual rape. Like in the show, there are ALOT of flashbacks and the present day story is slow moving



In terms of books written for children, Gail Carson Levine is a good one. She is famous for Ella Enchanted (the book is very different from the film) and some other fairy tale books. She also wrote books for Disney in the Tinkerbell book series.