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tinyzap's Reviews (280)
I accidentally read this book out of its natural order. In retrospect I get why some things felt weird in the book, because I’d missed out on some other plot points in the previous book. Oops! But as far as fairy books go this one was really interesting. The book is about a girl who stumbles into the land of fairies while searching for her sister. The amount of research done for the book was on par with Melissa Marr, but where Marr uses alegory for life, Melling adds layers of story and foreshadowing. She’s pretty good at it too, seeing asI’m unnaturally good at calling foreshadowing in books, and I only caught one of Melling’s big reveals. The surprise of her ending was both jarring and exciting. I enjoyed this book way more than I expected and can’t wait to read the rest of the series.
The first half of the book was captivating enough, I found myself intent to finish it just to see how the story would unfold. But the second half of the book felt rushed and unedited. Where a few words would have sufficed, a few pages were written. Plot twists that were set up from the beginning were, in the end, left out to dry. It seemed like a mash up of genres with no solid plot or character development. The ending leaves you thinking there may be some in the second book but at 500+ pages I'm not sure its worth the time.
