7/10
Initially I was gonna put 3✩ but since there's already one; it's purrfect. Overall 3.5✩

A pleasant work to read, the narration is smooth and the chapters are the little breads it is spread upon. You eat one, two, three.... niom niom niom

You discover the world view of an MC ( the girl ) who knows nothing aside the cave she grew in, bullied by a family who despises her. To her eyes, it is absurd to think that she could be well-treated. She is nothing but a "stupid" girl, after all. A well-developed personality whose gaze and thoughts make the storytelling refreshing given the first person narrative.

Driven into the quest of Xilu's Chalice in a hope of avoiding the end of the world, you follow the wanderings of the girl and her makeshift family in a rift which serves them up to madness. Between the nightmares haunting her sleep and the ones hanting their journey, the girl puts her foot in a terrible gear. A gear in which the author takes a mischievious pleasure to throw us in at the same occasion. Simple and horrific.

While I can objectively consider that the simplicity of the characters gives to this story a "tale" vibe in regard to which they stay coherent as they all share that aspect... I can't elude that the weak point of the story is the characters. They have no background. Xilu aside, that said. He's possibly the most interesting character. When the girl has a wonderful and vivid personality, I sob for her having little background, not speaking of important sub-characters as Mr. Ren and Lady Scarlet who stayed almost strangers to my eyes. It's too bad because while they had personalities that would easily allow me to root for them ( I was annoyed when unpleasant things happened to them, but just "annoyed" ) I wouldn't be able to say a lot about them. On the same note, one of my biggest interrogation as I was reading was why the hell the girl's family treated her so awfully? I awaited until the very end a clarification that never came. The characters have no ( except for the girl ) development. The ones who acted bad did it just because they were bad, the reverse for the good ones. It lacks something relatable.

It leaves me alone with my hunger, though I still enjoyed the story. I'm glad I read it.

So I know that if author wishes so, she can make a masterpiece out of this story!