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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very good, but very long
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
First thoughts... Fairydale is weird. Fairydale is LONG. Long book. Long chapters. You are going to have to really want it to make it through Fairydale.
The book starts with Darcy journeying to Fairydale to receive an inheritance from her deceased father she didn't know. Immediately things get weird. This town has strange people and strange happenings. Darcy meets brooding Caleb and she finds herself drawn to him but when she sleeps she is haunted by another man Amon who's from 200 centuries before her time but she can't deny the pull. Darcy is torn between Caleb in real life and literally the man of her dream Amon. Meanwhile an evil is making its ways through Fairydale and Darcy doesn't know who to trust.
Let's Talk bad for a moment. This book is wordy and can get repetitive in places. Honestly it should have been edited down or split into a series. There are moments that are slow and drag and I cen see why so many people have DNFed this. You get a lot of unneeded information! I also kind of felt the climax could have been better. I needed higher stakes.
But the good, this is a beautifully strange Gothic fantasy. Down to the core its a love story. Love that spits in the face of time. Personally I loved seeing three timeliness, especially how they drew the middle and most recent one together. Amon is the perfect "touch her and die" MMC and the mouth on that manđ„” This book also comes with plenty of spicy scenes that did it for me but make sure to check trigger warnings. This won't be a book for everyone but I found it enjoyable.
The book starts with Darcy journeying to Fairydale to receive an inheritance from her deceased father she didn't know. Immediately things get weird. This town has strange people and strange happenings. Darcy meets brooding Caleb and she finds herself drawn to him but when she sleeps she is haunted by another man Amon who's from 200 centuries before her time but she can't deny the pull. Darcy is torn between Caleb in real life and literally the man of her dream Amon. Meanwhile an evil is making its ways through Fairydale and Darcy doesn't know who to trust.
Let's Talk bad for a moment. This book is wordy and can get repetitive in places. Honestly it should have been edited down or split into a series. There are moments that are slow and drag and I cen see why so many people have DNFed this. You get a lot of unneeded information! I also kind of felt the climax could have been better. I needed higher stakes.
But the good, this is a beautifully strange Gothic fantasy. Down to the core its a love story. Love that spits in the face of time. Personally I loved seeing three timeliness, especially how they drew the middle and most recent one together. Amon is the perfect "touch her and die" MMC and the mouth on that manđ„” This book also comes with plenty of spicy scenes that did it for me but make sure to check trigger warnings. This won't be a book for everyone but I found it enjoyable.
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Ms. Veronica Lancet⊠I fear this may be a masterpiece. *Standing ovationâcomplete with slow clapping* Seriously, my jaw is still on the floor.
What a wild ride this was! Multiple timelines and multiple storylines to explore and get lost in. The haunting atmosphere and beautiful moments are absolutely everything. From concept to execution I was hooked. This is an absolutely mind-bending, unhinged and stunning romance novel with dark gothic fantasy and paranormal elements.
This love story has a long buildup, but the culmination is gut-wrenchingly beautiful, and definitely worth the perseverance.
I received an eARC of Fairydale.
What a wild ride this was! Multiple timelines and multiple storylines to explore and get lost in. The haunting atmosphere and beautiful moments are absolutely everything. From concept to execution I was hooked. This is an absolutely mind-bending, unhinged and stunning romance novel with dark gothic fantasy and paranormal elements.
This love story has a long buildup, but the culmination is gut-wrenchingly beautiful, and definitely worth the perseverance.
I received an eARC of Fairydale.
DNF 20% I was bored and there was 9hrs to go. It is very weird but I wasn't intrigued enough to want to understand what is happening.
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Do not recommend
slow-paced
Oh boy, where to begin.
In summary, not worth reading.
This book has potential and might have been decent if the author had cut half of it out. Itâs too long, too slow, and has a lot of unnecessary information in it.
The authors note at the beginning says âThis is a long journey (almost 800 pages), so if youâre not a fan of complex narrative threads, lengthy books, or extreme slow burns this will not be the book for you. This is also not the book to skim, or you may find yourself lost in a sea of information, which is, at time, purposefully misleading. The plot is complicated, featuring a large cast of characters and three different timelines.â
For me, this is not a red flag. I enjoy long books. I enjoy complex narratives and multi timeline novels and am willing to read (actually enjoy reading) a longer book for a more full story and world building. In this book, however, this authors note is simply a cop out and feels like a pretentious way of saying that they didnât feel like editing and if you donât like or understand the book itâs your fault, not the book.
I disagree with that. The threads have interest, the multi timelines could have come together in such an interesting way. All the bones are there. But trying to sift through all the information to find the important parts and trudge through the unnecessary backstory to get to the 75% mark where it actually becomes a story makes this book unreadable.
I almost DNFâd at 25% (mind you, thatâs 200 pages in - I should be in a story by then). I almost DNFâd again at 30%. Around the 50% mark (the length of most books) I figured it had to pick up and get to the point soon. At 64% I was starting to see a story. By 75% it was making sense. By 90% I was getting disappointed that somehow nothing was still happening, and at 97% I was left wondering if that was really it and why I bothered pushing through.
Ultimately, the blurb of this book does not match what is between the covers. It probably could, if the book was trimmed down to around 400 pages, but itâs very clear that the author has no interest in doing so.
Iâm disappointed. I enjoyed the multiple timelines, glimpses of previous lives, and how they reveal elements that tie in to the main storyline. I loved the concept behind the FMC and the fated mates found in every lifetime. I think this could have been done incredibly well, but unfortunately itâs too drawn out to hold interest.
The book has multiple trigger warnings that I would advise looking at if you do attempt to foray into this. It is dark and has lots of on-the-page spice.
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
5âïž | 3 đ¶ïž
âMaybe you've known what it's like to be at the bottom, but I doubt you've known hell."
"That is what awaits you. And everyone in Fairydale. Hell," â
Fairydale is a dark gothic historical romance with elements of horror, paranormal and fantasy in a 1950s setting.
We follow Darcy OâSullivan, who is an orphan, and receives a letter to find out she is invited to her dead biological daddyâs funeral! FUNNN! An orphan finds out she has a living father only to find out he is indeed dead now. But the good news is she is included in the will. So she must come to Fairydale and attend his funeral to hear out the will.
Darc decided to travel to Fairydale and in this small coastal town, it holds a lot of secrets about her bloodline.
Everything in Fairydale is odd especially the find gentleman she meets named Caleb Hale.
Iâm not gonna lie. Youâll either hate this book or love it. Darcy will annoy you and make you question how innocent and nice this woman is because HUH!
You will think you know how this book will end and have theories but honey.. no you wonât. This book is nothing as it seems. You will be confused and questioning what the fuck is going on.
This book took a minute to really kick off and hook you. I think after like the 30% you start to really get gripped into the book. I also hate how long the chapters are but also its a standalone so Iâll let it slide