<blockquote>is a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy tales, who upon discovering a ragged woman outside the castle during a storm, takes her in—certain she’s a princess in disguise.</blockquote>
➤ I think tor.com and I have different opinions on how dark a fairy-tale-inspired story needs to be before it counts as "dark". I mean yeah murder happens but like, that doesn't make this appreciably darker than plenty of fairy tales I've read in my life