A review by claire_loves_books
Feenring by Linda Robertson, Ralf Schmitz

1.0

This was so frustrating- It felt like a huge important chunk of the book was left out! It starts one week after hallowed circle and just after the witch's halloween ball- the event the previous book was building up to but do we get to read about the ball? No. No we do not. Apparently there was a big thing at the ball- Fairies tried to kidnap Beverly and then Seph killed a fairy prince which all caused a lot of chaos that this book then tries to sort out, so instead of reading about the action we're reading abut the aftermath. It's like going to a ball, but not going to the actual party bit just going to the end bit where everyone is drunk and on their way home and then staying to clean up! The ball sounds so much more interesting than reading about how perfect Menessos' decorating is (he has spiffy ceiling lights that look like stars if you were wondering).

Anyway, this book seems to borrow from the 'terrible names in the fantasy genre' because we are introduced to both Seven and Mountain. Steph is getting more and more Anita Blake-esque. I still don't see any attraction to Johnny. Menessos is particularly rapey. I really didn't like it.

I also kept getting told things instead of shown them, "He showed me[Seph] that he was willing to lead" he might have shown Seph but he's not shown me.

Spoiler

Why didn't Menessos just summon the fairies earlier in the book- it's part of their big plan at the end, but surely it would have been a lot easier to kill them if they weren't all prepared for war. And why doesn't Seph shut the door to the fairy relm before she kills Menessos, the whole point of killing him was to get the fire fairy out of the human's realm but then Seph doesn't even need to do tha, she just shuts the door anyway, it doesn't seem like Menessos needed to die. Although Menessos is obviously going to be bought back, he'll probably come back stronger ... sigh