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**Read for Jordan Ford's Summer Reading Challenge 2020. Prompt 13: A book that was recommended to you**
TW: Attempted sexual assault
This series has a cool idea. Instead of the typical concept that faeries and their world are dying because humanity doesn't believe anymore (which is actually annoying because we still dream, we still imagine, and if they are made of our imagination, then their world has to express itself some way), there is a new fae court in existence: of progress and technology.
The narration is superior, as expected from Khristine Hvam who also also did the audibooks for Daughter of Smoke & Bone.
Instalove. Ash and Meghan barely spend any time together and he's still in mourning. Was it really necessary for feelings to come in book 1?? I thought I hated Faerieland and everything in it. But that was before Ash, WHAT this was his home. If the Never Never die, he would die too. Seriously? Seriously.
These characters can all be pretty moronic. One of the first things Puck and Meghan found in the Never Never was the wild woods not only disappearing but being taken over by iron. Iron trees! And yet nobody warned the rulers nor made the connection when iron fae started appearing and attacking, not even Ash. Meghan quickly learns she shouldn't be outspoken in her gratitude and not to be hasty in her promises, yet she quickly spouts "anything you want" again and again. And again.
I also don't see any incentive to care more for the old fae or want to destroy the iron fae, they are essentially all the same: a danger to each other and humans, with lacking empathy and kindness.
TW: Attempted sexual assault
This series has a cool idea. Instead of the typical concept that faeries and their world are dying because humanity doesn't believe anymore (which is actually annoying because we still dream, we still imagine, and if they are made of our imagination, then their world has to express itself some way), there is a new fae court in existence: of progress and technology.
The narration is superior, as expected from Khristine Hvam who also also did the audibooks for Daughter of Smoke & Bone.
Instalove. Ash and Meghan barely spend any time together and he's still in mourning. Was it really necessary for feelings to come in book 1?? I thought I hated Faerieland and everything in it. But that was before Ash, WHAT this was his home. If the Never Never die, he would die too. Seriously? Seriously.
These characters can all be pretty moronic. One of the first things Puck and Meghan found in the Never Never was the wild woods not only disappearing but being taken over by iron. Iron trees! And yet nobody warned the rulers nor made the connection when iron fae started appearing and attacking, not even Ash. Meghan quickly learns she shouldn't be outspoken in her gratitude and not to be hasty in her promises, yet she quickly spouts "anything you want" again and again. And again.
I also don't see any incentive to care more for the old fae or want to destroy the iron fae, they are essentially all the same: a danger to each other and humans, with lacking empathy and kindness.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying and Body shaming
Minor: Kidnapping
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