A review by ames_is_reading
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

5.0

This was a beautifully woven and captivating fairy tale and I am in continued awe of Juliet Marillier. She writes with such innate wisdom of the human experience and with a single sentence can break your heart or fill you with such love that you would weep from the beauty. The characters in this novel are complex, diverse, emotional and REAL. I loved Sorcha's strength in this novel and she just down right owns the title of Heroine. I can also say that I have fallen head over heels in love with Red. He was such an interesting character for me. He conducted himself with integrity, love and goodness and yet was still flawed. He was not perfect as many YA novels portray the love interest to be. He was real and I totally and irrevocably heart him :p. The world building was poetic and I enjoyed the subtle and effective fantasy in this book. The magical and the mundane seem to meld together in Marillier’s novels, until she has you believing they are one in the same. And I believe it!

This book is filled with anguish, pain, heartbreak and the simple truth that nothing ever turns out perfect in real life. This is also true to for The Daughter of the Forest. Not much more to say other than Juliet Marillier rocks my world!