Not Good for Maidens

10 Reasons Why I Worship this Book

1)It's inspired by the Christina Rossetti poem 'Goblin Market.'
2)The story takes place in 2 different timelines: the present and 1980s in England.
3)Seventeen-year-old Lou is an inquisitive and clever protagonist attempting to rescue her best friend.
4)It's a contemporary fantasy, with Goblin Market set in a liminal place known by Lou's family and some of the people in town.
5)Goblin Market is beautiful and horrifying.
6)The goblins are beautiful and horrifying.
7)Lou's aunt, in the eighties' timeline, falls in love with a goblin girl.
8)Lou's is a family of witches
9)Like if Labyrinth was a horror movie
10)The support and love and stress between the women of this family with all their secrets.