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A review by wickedregal
Tread Lightly by Catherine Lane
3.0
***ARC from YLVA Publishing***
I was a wee doubtful and a bit scared of what I got myself into when I started reading this book, with the way it started out. Here you have these two characters standing outside a sex toy store and the one talking about magic calling to her? Definitely an interesting way to start out a book. I quite enjoyed the read though after getting past the initial “whaaat?” reaction when I started.
While the book may have involved the “Fairy Godmother Council”, the “Guardian Angels”, demons, etc… What I found interesting - and whether the author intended this or not - was by the end of the book, I found it a creative reflection on society and how someone’s prejudices a lot of times come from other individuals or groups they know, and trust, who are misinformed or mislead in the first place. And when one takes or believes those as fact, it often creates assumptions, misunderstandings, and at times hate for no reason other than “because so and so told me”. As was the case with first meetings between Claire and Tamiel, and then again with those two ladies and Yakum. Maybe my mind went deeper than the author intended the readers to go, or maybe not.
But putting all that deeper meaning talk aside, the book was quite quirky as well. I mean how can it not be? With fairy godmothers, godfathers, angels, demons, half-demons, well… you get my point. The personifying of Claire’s wand, making it have an actual personality of it’s own, made situations even more interesting for sure. It was definitely a fun read.
I was a wee doubtful and a bit scared of what I got myself into when I started reading this book, with the way it started out. Here you have these two characters standing outside a sex toy store and the one talking about magic calling to her? Definitely an interesting way to start out a book. I quite enjoyed the read though after getting past the initial “whaaat?” reaction when I started.
While the book may have involved the “Fairy Godmother Council”, the “Guardian Angels”, demons, etc… What I found interesting - and whether the author intended this or not - was by the end of the book, I found it a creative reflection on society and how someone’s prejudices a lot of times come from other individuals or groups they know, and trust, who are misinformed or mislead in the first place. And when one takes or believes those as fact, it often creates assumptions, misunderstandings, and at times hate for no reason other than “because so and so told me”. As was the case with first meetings between Claire and Tamiel, and then again with those two ladies and Yakum. Maybe my mind went deeper than the author intended the readers to go, or maybe not.
But putting all that deeper meaning talk aside, the book was quite quirky as well. I mean how can it not be? With fairy godmothers, godfathers, angels, demons, half-demons, well… you get my point. The personifying of Claire’s wand, making it have an actual personality of it’s own, made situations even more interesting for sure. It was definitely a fun read.