Thursday, May 29, 2014

The Faerie Path

The Faerie Path by Allan Frewin Jones, 2007 Eos

     Anita Palmer is a normal almost-sixteen-year-old girl enjoying time with her boyfriend, practicing for her part as Juliet in the school play, and hanging out with friends from school. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday her boyfriend invites her on a motorboat ride down the Thames River in London where they crash into a bridge. In the hospital Anita waits for her boyfriend to wake up, but is stunned when magical things begin to happen.
     When she grows a pair of dragonfly-like wings Anita believes she is dreaming, but when she searches for the missing young man and follows a shadowy specter into the Faerie Realm the dream is reality. Anita discovers she is Princess Tania, the missing seventh daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania of the Immortal Realms. She has been missing for five hundred years when she finally returns, and nearly everyone is overjoyed at her return.
     But Edric is here too, her boyfriend has betrayed her and dragged her from the Mortal Realms into a land where Anita has no memory of her past and no idea of a possible future. She allows the charming Lord Gabriel Drake to sway her memories and it isn't until too late that she finally realizes who she is and how the two halves of her soul fit together.
     Anita and Tania are separate halves that make up the whole young woman, able to walk between the Faerie World and Mortal Realm. She learns to trust herself and discover her own abilities while battling heartbreak and fighting to overcome Edric's betrayal. Teens and young adults will enjoy the fantasy of her story, with accessible language and smooth storytelling.

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