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A review by ivykennerauthor
The Faerie Plague by Michelle Madow
4.0
I've spent the past week devouring this series. The funniest thing about it is that it has a continuation series that I already had on my wishlist (which has now gone straight to the top) that I didn't realize was related. These books are incredible but I can't tell you much more without a few potential spoilers
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Still reading? Okay, this series has a little bit of everything. It's like Hunger Games X ACOTAR X Big Brother X Triwizard Tournament X Percy Jackson. Possibly even a couple of Dragon Age: Inquisition references? There's every kind of lore and mythology you can think of. Roman and Greek gods, fae, witches, mages, shifters, vampires, demons, pegasi, seers...the list goes on. It's a just a little spicy but VERY addictive. HIGHLY recommend.
That said, there are two trigger warnings I feel are necessary. Neither are particularly graphic.
The first is self...unalivement. It sounds worse than it is. A particular immortal character decides that they have completed their destiny and wants their soul to move on to a place they can be happy. It's really not at all sad and rather sweet. I was happy for them.
The second is SA of a teenage character by an immortal being. It's not at all descriptive and the act is merely alluded to and is cut short. I personally did not find it triggering and it just made me uncomfortable to think about, but I felt it necessary to give you all the explanation and let you all decide for yourselves if it is something you are comfortable reading.
The biggest reason I give this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the age of the main characters. Remember when I said it was spicy? Here we go into the spoilers. Torrance and Selena are 16 years old. The gods give Selena birth control and Torrance is sexually assaulted by the sorceress Circe. As I'm sure this book series is marketed towards the YA audience, it might seem natural that the characters are that age. As an adult reading this, I was EXTREMELY uncomfortable reading about 16 year olds having sex. Don't get me wrong, I was doing the same thing at their age. But reading about it makes me feel like I'm doing something illegal. If you're going to have explicit sexual scenes, for the love of God, at least make the characters of legal age so it doesn't feel so creepy reading about it.
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Still reading? Okay, this series has a little bit of everything. It's like Hunger Games X ACOTAR X Big Brother X Triwizard Tournament X Percy Jackson. Possibly even a couple of Dragon Age: Inquisition references? There's every kind of lore and mythology you can think of. Roman and Greek gods, fae, witches, mages, shifters, vampires, demons, pegasi, seers...the list goes on. It's a just a little spicy but VERY addictive. HIGHLY recommend.
That said, there are two trigger warnings I feel are necessary. Neither are particularly graphic.
The first is self...unalivement. It sounds worse than it is. A particular immortal character decides that they have completed their destiny and wants their soul to move on to a place they can be happy. It's really not at all sad and rather sweet. I was happy for them.
The second is SA of a teenage character by an immortal being. It's not at all descriptive and the act is merely alluded to and is cut short. I personally did not find it triggering and it just made me uncomfortable to think about, but I felt it necessary to give you all the explanation and let you all decide for yourselves if it is something you are comfortable reading.
The biggest reason I give this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the age of the main characters. Remember when I said it was spicy? Here we go into the spoilers. Torrance and Selena are 16 years old. The gods give Selena birth control and Torrance is sexually assaulted by the sorceress Circe. As I'm sure this book series is marketed towards the YA audience, it might seem natural that the characters are that age. As an adult reading this, I was EXTREMELY uncomfortable reading about 16 year olds having sex. Don't get me wrong, I was doing the same thing at their age. But reading about it makes me feel like I'm doing something illegal. If you're going to have explicit sexual scenes, for the love of God, at least make the characters of legal age so it doesn't feel so creepy reading about it.