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alisonhori's review
4.0
I enjoyed this book...lots of twists and turns and secrets unfolding all the time and the world created is quite unique. Characters are interesting and quite complex and multi-dimensional which is nice. I read this book as a stand alone...I did not realize it was book 2 till I was quite a ways into the book and it was not convenient to go back and read part 1 first. This book worked fine as a stand alone, IMO, but I can't say if it would have been better if I knew the background of book 1. I am interested in book 1 because I liked this author...not because I feel like I am missing pieces.
I do not feel like all the pieces exactly fit together at the end of this book.there was no neat resolution to all the pieces though no really open ended situations were left to be resolved either. It was really more just an neat read but didn't really go from and to anywhere. I suspect that there will be a part 3 and maybe within the context of the whole series, that issue will be less true.
I do not feel like all the pieces exactly fit together at the end of this book.there was no neat resolution to all the pieces though no really open ended situations were left to be resolved either. It was really more just an neat read but didn't really go from and to anywhere. I suspect that there will be a part 3 and maybe within the context of the whole series, that issue will be less true.
puzumaki's review
4.0
The book is focused very much on the characters and their relationships. It is set in Scotland and follows the interactions of Earth and the fairy world. I was unaware this was the second novel in this series, but it isn't a sequel so much as a story using the same world concept. I do wish I knew what happened to one of the main characters (we start with her, and she gradually becomes less of the main character towards the end).
Overall, it was a satisfying adult version of a fairy story where most of the paranormal/fantasy novels are written for young adults these days.
Overall, it was a satisfying adult version of a fairy story where most of the paranormal/fantasy novels are written for young adults these days.
craigpizzuti's review
3.0
Not quite as good as Elfland but still very readable and a good set-up for further books in this 'universe'...
bookadventurer's review
3.0
I enjoyed this mythical fiction and urban fantasy mix of a novel.
This book is about a group of mostly broken and unhappy people who end up growing closer (and stronger) than they thought possible, while they work to discover the truth about the appearance of a strange young man and later, as they battle the evil villain. The large estate where the story takes place is strangely wrapped up in and connected to the Aetherial world, the Spiral (faeryland), and the main characters journey there and back in their efforts to bring all to rights.
The characters in this one were somewhat harder to like than in Elflands, but that didn't upset the story, or my interest in the plot. I was hoping for a different resolution, but the author's fits the storyline and characters better than any assumptions I had before I started reading. I did enjoy the fact that the storyline was not a copy of that in Elflands, with different heroines and different villains. I have also discovered a great liking for Warrington's prose, and her descriptions of the strange and eerie Otherworlds. An interesting bit of politics provides an intriguing plot twist that took me by surprise.
Final word: I look forward to the next in the series, and any other books of Warrington's that get published in North America.
This book is about a group of mostly broken and unhappy people who end up growing closer (and stronger) than they thought possible, while they work to discover the truth about the appearance of a strange young man and later, as they battle the evil villain. The large estate where the story takes place is strangely wrapped up in and connected to the Aetherial world, the Spiral (faeryland), and the main characters journey there and back in their efforts to bring all to rights.
The characters in this one were somewhat harder to like than in Elflands, but that didn't upset the story, or my interest in the plot. I was hoping for a different resolution, but the author's fits the storyline and characters better than any assumptions I had before I started reading. I did enjoy the fact that the storyline was not a copy of that in Elflands, with different heroines and different villains. I have also discovered a great liking for Warrington's prose, and her descriptions of the strange and eerie Otherworlds. An interesting bit of politics provides an intriguing plot twist that took me by surprise.
Final word: I look forward to the next in the series, and any other books of Warrington's that get published in North America.
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