interesting retelling, great characters

This book is a loose retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s the Masque of the Red Death, following the youngest of the princesses who have been isolated from the rest of the world during the plague, and a grave digger who was lucky enough to be immune to it. This book has deception, mistaken identities, amazing characters, and practically everything a lot of people could want in a fantasy book. One of the main characters is also Jewish, and her identity plays a role in the story in many ways, despite the fantasy setting, so the story includes references to Jewish prejudice, especially how they were attacked during times of plague and often blamed for it. I loved it, and read the whole book really quickly because of how much I wanted to find out what happens next, I think it took me about one or two days to read the entire novel, but I was also in a major reading streak of sorts at the time.