An Enchantment of Ravens
Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized among them. But when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes – a weakness that could cost him his life.
Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love, violating the fair folks’ ruthless Good Law. There's only one way to save both their lives, Isobel must drink from the Green Well, whose water will transform her into a fair one—at the cost of her Craft, for immortality is as stagnant as it is timeless.
Isobel has a choice: she can sacrifice her art for a future, or arm herself with paint and canvas against the ancient power of the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel.
Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love, violating the fair folks’ ruthless Good Law. There's only one way to save both their lives, Isobel must drink from the Green Well, whose water will transform her into a fair one—at the cost of her Craft, for immortality is as stagnant as it is timeless.
Isobel has a choice: she can sacrifice her art for a future, or arm herself with paint and canvas against the ancient power of the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel.
What I thought:
Dreamy.
This entire book, from the gorgeous cover to the very last page. Rook. Sigh. Isobel. Sigh. I love Fae and this story got everything right... in a unique way. Their world is stunning perfection on the outside and ugly on the inside, and I don't want to speculate on any analogies to the real world, but I love love loved the complexity and details, down to each faerie's one flaw.
So well done.
I'm a really tough sell in the romance department and this had romance, but it wasn't all romance. The story comes first and the romantic moments are woven in all dreamily and unobtrusively and I was rooting for them and squeeeing. So, yes, I definitely recommend this book.
More Fae. More Fae. More Fae.
This entire book, from the gorgeous cover to the very last page. Rook. Sigh. Isobel. Sigh. I love Fae and this story got everything right... in a unique way. Their world is stunning perfection on the outside and ugly on the inside, and I don't want to speculate on any analogies to the real world, but I love love loved the complexity and details, down to each faerie's one flaw.
So well done.
I'm a really tough sell in the romance department and this had romance, but it wasn't all romance. The story comes first and the romantic moments are woven in all dreamily and unobtrusively and I was rooting for them and squeeeing. So, yes, I definitely recommend this book.
More Fae. More Fae. More Fae.
Rating: **** (4 stars)
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Happy Reading,
Chelly
Click on the cover to link to Goodreads and leave your book recs in my comments. Oh, yeah, and find me on twitter: @ChellyPike
Happy Reading,
Chelly
RATING SCALE:
5* = OMFG loved it. Will read it again. Touch my book and I will cut you.
4* = Really good. Highly recommend. Miiiight reread. Maybe. Don't touch my book.
3* = Good. I liked it. Go ahead and touch it.
2* = Not for me, finished but struggled. Didn't connect. Here, have a book.
1* = DNF. Couldn't do it.
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