If I’m honest I wasn’t expecting to be gripped by this book. I tend to favour adult thrillers or crime fiction to young adult fantasy (now that i’m a little older) but it surprised me when I was up at 2am reading and has frustrated me, because now, I have to wait another year or so until the 2nd book is released, waiting to find out what happens with Jude, our protagonist, and those around her.
Of course there’s a love interest that intrigues and who you want to know more about (lets be honest, when isn’t there?), but it’s not all flowers and kisses, there are dark aspects to the book that appealed to this thriller-loving reader and there’s also a real storyline, about having your own power and the need to belong and fit in, which doesn’t just resonate with those struggling at school or college, that feeling can stick around a long way into adulthood and everyone manages it in their own way. Some of the relationships and actions were a little hard to understand and believe in (Valerian, Jude/Taryn) but I feel like the door has been left open for this to be explored more.
Beautifully written, with enough description of Faerieland and it’s inhabitants, but not too much that the story is lost. 've seen other reviews describing this as magical, but I'd disagree, the writing makes it seem like the fey just have different skills and cultures to us, rather than it being some magic that we can't understand or comprehend.
I’ll certainly be keeping a look out for book two and then no doubt getting frustrated again when I get through that in a couple of days and need to wait for book three!
I received a copy of the book through Readers First for my honest feedback
Of course there’s a love interest that intrigues and who you want to know more about (lets be honest, when isn’t there?), but it’s not all flowers and kisses, there are dark aspects to the book that appealed to this thriller-loving reader and there’s also a real storyline, about having your own power and the need to belong and fit in, which doesn’t just resonate with those struggling at school or college, that feeling can stick around a long way into adulthood and everyone manages it in their own way. Some of the relationships and actions were a little hard to understand and believe in (Valerian, Jude/Taryn) but I feel like the door has been left open for this to be explored more.
Beautifully written, with enough description of Faerieland and it’s inhabitants, but not too much that the story is lost. 've seen other reviews describing this as magical, but I'd disagree, the writing makes it seem like the fey just have different skills and cultures to us, rather than it being some magic that we can't understand or comprehend.
I’ll certainly be keeping a look out for book two and then no doubt getting frustrated again when I get through that in a couple of days and need to wait for book three!
I received a copy of the book through Readers First for my honest feedback