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meganbmoore) wrote2009-05-10 04:25 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2009-05-10 04:25 pm
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The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
Five hundred years ago, Tania, the seventh daughter of Oberon and Titania, disappeared from Faerie on her sixteenth birthday. At that point, time stopped in Faerie and the people of that world have since been wandering around in a constant state of flux. Today(ish), Anita’s boyfriend, Evan, takes her boating for her sixteenth birthday, only to have something cause them to run into a wall as he’s trying to tell her something important. Fading in and out of consciousness at the hospital, Anita learns that Evan is in a coma, and then that he disappears. Eventually, she falls asleep and wakes up in Faerie, where she is, surprise surprise, told that she’s the missing princess Tania, and engaged to Gabriel, a powerful lord.
The book is stronger than its premise, though Tania herself suffers a bit from the expected traits. But I very much enjoyed her conviction that it was a dream, and her wondering why she would do something like dream up sic older sisters when she was an only child who had never wanted siblings. The back cover copy builds up a triangle between Evan, Tania, and Gabriel, but there’s barely any of that. The “right” choice (as much as either can be the right choice at this point) is fairly clear all along, and the romance takes a distant backseat to Tania’s coming to terms with her past, and getting to know her family. I concede to possibly being more interested in her sisters than in Tania herself, though I’m not thrilled with how one sister’s plotline turned out. The worldbuilding is largely strong and interesting, if a bit too fanciful at times for my taste (along with some of the dialogue), and I like how most of the traditional fae elements and fairy tale tropes were used, though I wish they’d been a bit darker.
I’m very curious about the second book, which supposedly features Tania searching for Titania, who disappeared soon after she did.
The book is stronger than its premise, though Tania herself suffers a bit from the expected traits. But I very much enjoyed her conviction that it was a dream, and her wondering why she would do something like dream up sic older sisters when she was an only child who had never wanted siblings. The back cover copy builds up a triangle between Evan, Tania, and Gabriel, but there’s barely any of that. The “right” choice (as much as either can be the right choice at this point) is fairly clear all along, and the romance takes a distant backseat to Tania’s coming to terms with her past, and getting to know her family. I concede to possibly being more interested in her sisters than in Tania herself, though I’m not thrilled with how one sister’s plotline turned out. The worldbuilding is largely strong and interesting, if a bit too fanciful at times for my taste (along with some of the dialogue), and I like how most of the traditional fae elements and fairy tale tropes were used, though I wish they’d been a bit darker.
I’m very curious about the second book, which supposedly features Tania searching for Titania, who disappeared soon after she did.