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A review by kreela
A Thorn Among Fae by Joy Lewis
4.0
Keywords:
[] Fake Date
[] Thief Assassin
[] YA Clean Romance (no kiss? Come on!)
[] Twin body swap (wrong sibling)
[] Luna Moth “horse”
[] To Be Continued, darn it. No HEA yet.
“I was about to be the least powerful being in a room full of moon-drunk fae.” I love a good underdog novel, and this one did not disappoint. Normally I avoid assassin novels; I want to pretend to be a hero. But Anova was a thief by necessity, rather than earning her keep as a woman of the night.
Leander tracked her down because he needed a human, someone not beholden to the king, to assassinate him. Anova was not a killer, but her options were limited: incarceration and indenturement, or run to the fae lands to (gulp) kill a king.
I liked the whole story. The romance is central, but the plot is better than I expected when reading the tropes. And a luna moth (“butterfly” at night...has to be a luna moth) as a pet? How cool is that?
“the truth was that her appetite for tragedies was low these days. There was too much of it in the real world at the moment.”
This phrase really spoke to me. This is why I read fantasy. There is too much fear and tragedy nowadays.
Anova’s transformation from thief to consort to criminal to court is a pleasure to read.
[] Fake Date
[] Thief Assassin
[] YA Clean Romance (no kiss? Come on!)
[] Twin body swap (wrong sibling)
[] Luna Moth “horse”
[] To Be Continued, darn it. No HEA yet.
“I was about to be the least powerful being in a room full of moon-drunk fae.” I love a good underdog novel, and this one did not disappoint. Normally I avoid assassin novels; I want to pretend to be a hero. But Anova was a thief by necessity, rather than earning her keep as a woman of the night.
Leander tracked her down because he needed a human, someone not beholden to the king, to assassinate him. Anova was not a killer, but her options were limited: incarceration and indenturement, or run to the fae lands to (gulp) kill a king.
I liked the whole story. The romance is central, but the plot is better than I expected when reading the tropes. And a luna moth (“butterfly” at night...has to be a luna moth) as a pet? How cool is that?
“the truth was that her appetite for tragedies was low these days. There was too much of it in the real world at the moment.”
This phrase really spoke to me. This is why I read fantasy. There is too much fear and tragedy nowadays.
Anova’s transformation from thief to consort to criminal to court is a pleasure to read.