I liked reading this book 📖

It has an intriguing storyline.

Thank you for sending the arc

Omg the review needs to be 100 characters long so I will type away some more 🤦🏼‍♀️🥴

This reminded me of a few books I read years ago and loved, including Five by Christie Rich, so I was happy to read it! Upon starting, I found it was both different and exactly what I was looking for!

I had to DNF this book at 25%. It is too flowery for me at the moment and does not read like a YA/Adult fairytale which is why I picked it.
I am normally a girl who loves details, but this was a long winded way of getting the visuals across. It's great if it was middle grade, but if you are aiming for YA/Adult you do not need to go into abundant detail on things. We can figure things out better with less than if the sentence just keeps going on and on with no ending in sight and oh look the person planted bushes and ponds. Oh wait, false alarm.
I had to stop because I found the sentencing was taking away from the story and I could not immerse myself in it. Also, she is not seventeen like the blurb said, but eighteen when she meets the prince, who I am guessing is her true love. I don't know because I gave up trying to figure out visuals and where we were in the book because I could not tell if we were in the past, present or future.
Maybe one day I will finish reading the book, but not right now.
2 out of 5 stars as it stands.
4 out of 5 stars if it was classified as middle grade or younger.
For my full review check out my blog at https://bookgirlreviewsbooks.blogspot.com

ARC from NetGalley

DNF at 9%, half of which I skimmed.

This book is written for tweens. There are so many exclamation marks. Everything is told. It's just obnoxious. It's bad.

I chose to read this book because it was described as an adult fairy tale and I love retellings of fairy tales, but in fact I think it's pitched more at children, maybe even pre-teen children. Which is fine, but not why I picked it up!

The world building is good and the story too, I liked the fae human friendships but I did not get on with the way it's written. I couldn't get into the flow of the writing at all and that spoilt the book for me. I found the language used and turns of phrase sat awkwardly. A shame, because the premise was appealing.

A wonderful fairy tale or should I say faery, this is a great read, with wonderful world building by the author you can feel yourself step into another world. The characters you know are all here, faery queens and kings, evil sorceress and dashing princes. The story is exciting and a real page turner. Patricia Bossano knows how to drag you into the tale and not let go. A wonderful read, far more than I was expecting from the over and description. I’m looking forward to future books.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion