(4.5 stars, rounded up)I picked up this book to read the night before I left on a big family trip, planning to read just the first chapter or two, but I couldn't go to sleep until I finished it. Others may complain that it's too short, but for me the length was just right. It's a fast-paced story...
I admit to a certain amount of disappointment when at 46% I reached the end of the story. Rae and her sisters and parents, and the Faerie who visited, were all fun, and enjoyable. This is not a short story about a young woman who is orphaned, or abandoned, who must 'go it alone' — this is a story...
I go to the palace only once, following the page Valka sends, and sit with her to compose another letter to my mother. Valka sneers at me but she cannot hide her discomfort with the contempt of my mother’s words. I find myself agreeing with my mother, studying her response carefully, then listeni...
In the late morning, I feel the skittering, skin crawling sensation of the ward at the great deodar cedar triggering. Whatever doubts I might have held regarding the riders evaporate at once. Around noon, the wards on the cottage itself flare. I stumble to a stop with a rush of vertigo, the blood...