![]() ![]() ![]() The plot is well-constructed and the writing is both descriptive and taut Kagawa kept me reading and left me wanting to find out what happens next. An unexpected (to me) third character, Kierran, is intriguing… and I really appreciated that Kagawa didn’t turn the trio into the semi-obligatory love triangle. Protective of his family and resentful of Meghan, the Fey Queen sister he believes deserted their family, Ethan Chase finds his resolve to ignore his heritage waning when exiled fey start dying or disappearing and Ethan himself is attacked, prompting a dangerous journey into the fey world with. ![]() The growing attraction between them is well-written, and Ethan’s knight-errant tendencies are the most admirable thing about him. Kenzie, the pretty school reporter who befriends Ethan against his will, is an engaging and plucky heroine with well-hidden troubles of her own. Ethan is fully mortal, but unlike most of us he can see the fey – which makes him more a target for their mischief than ordinary humans. Condition: Very Good ISBN 10: 1848451547 ISBN 13: 9781848451544. Kagawa’s fairies and fey are capricious and often powerful, and their interests rarely coincide with those of mortals. What works: Kagawa’s world has the same creepy, neither-safe-nor-predictable fascination of Alice’s Wonderland – not the Lewis Carroll version so much as the movie starring Johnny Depp. ![]()
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