The Lost Queen by Frewin Jones

The back of this book claims that it is “a story filled with love, magic, and hair-raising battles.” Well, it’s a Sekritly A Fairy Princess book, so there’s magic aplenty, and the book is positively drowning in the romantic subplot. Sadly, the battles are almost nil, and absent until near the end. I would cry foul, but I was sure I was being cruelly deceived going in.

This is the sequel to The Faerie Path, in which Tania, the lost-and-now-found princess of faerie returns to Earth with her boyfriend, Edric, to look for her missing mother, Titania. Sadly, this is largely sidelined in favor of drama involving her human parents thinking she ran off with Edric, and forbidding them to see each other. I am, sadly, too old to appreciate the tragedy of a curfew after you supposedly hop on a bus to Wales to chase after your boyfriend, even though that’s actually a lie to cover the part where you were in another world. Which is not to say that it was bad, just not written for me.

Thankfully, the latter part of the book was helped by the arrival of Tania’s sisters, cringe-worthy faux Elizabethan dialogue and all, as well as fae politicking and taking care of the missing mother plot, though I found some aspects of that a little hard to swallow.