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Midsummer Night by Freda Warrington
3.0
I enjoyed this mythical fiction and urban fantasy mix of a novel.
This book is about a group of mostly broken and unhappy people who end up growing closer (and stronger) than they thought possible, while they work to discover the truth about the appearance of a strange young man and later, as they battle the evil villain. The large estate where the story takes place is strangely wrapped up in and connected to the Aetherial world, the Spiral (faeryland), and the main characters journey there and back in their efforts to bring all to rights.
The characters in this one were somewhat harder to like than in Elflands, but that didn't upset the story, or my interest in the plot. I was hoping for a different resolution, but the author's fits the storyline and characters better than any assumptions I had before I started reading. I did enjoy the fact that the storyline was not a copy of that in Elflands, with different heroines and different villains. I have also discovered a great liking for Warrington's prose, and her descriptions of the strange and eerie Otherworlds. An interesting bit of politics provides an intriguing plot twist that took me by surprise.
Final word: I look forward to the next in the series, and any other books of Warrington's that get published in North America.
This book is about a group of mostly broken and unhappy people who end up growing closer (and stronger) than they thought possible, while they work to discover the truth about the appearance of a strange young man and later, as they battle the evil villain. The large estate where the story takes place is strangely wrapped up in and connected to the Aetherial world, the Spiral (faeryland), and the main characters journey there and back in their efforts to bring all to rights.
The characters in this one were somewhat harder to like than in Elflands, but that didn't upset the story, or my interest in the plot. I was hoping for a different resolution, but the author's fits the storyline and characters better than any assumptions I had before I started reading. I did enjoy the fact that the storyline was not a copy of that in Elflands, with different heroines and different villains. I have also discovered a great liking for Warrington's prose, and her descriptions of the strange and eerie Otherworlds. An interesting bit of politics provides an intriguing plot twist that took me by surprise.
Final word: I look forward to the next in the series, and any other books of Warrington's that get published in North America.