Helpful Score: 3
Reviewed by The Compulsive Reader for TeensReadToo.com
Anita Palmer believes that she is an ordinary girl, simply excited for her sixteenth birthday, and the plans her new boyfriend has made. She thinks nothing of the strange dreams she's been having. But when her birthday ends in disaster and the dreams get more and more vivid, Anita begins to feel afraid.
Then she is swept into an entirely different world, the world in which her boyfriend--and Anita--really belong. Here, she is Tania, the seventh princess of Faerie.
But all isn't joyful. The kingdom is mourning the death of her mother, and her eldest sister refuses to see her. And more importantly, there is a traitor in their midst...
THE FAERIE PATH was very charming and yet mysterious at the same time. The writing has a slight tendency to bog the reader down every once in a while, but the numerous plot twists keep the book from getting boring. Full of intriguing details and breathtaking descriptions, the story reads like your favorite fairy tale, and the surprise ending will leave you waiting in anticipation for the sequel, THE LOST QUEEN.
Anita Palmer believes that she is an ordinary girl, simply excited for her sixteenth birthday, and the plans her new boyfriend has made. She thinks nothing of the strange dreams she's been having. But when her birthday ends in disaster and the dreams get more and more vivid, Anita begins to feel afraid.
Then she is swept into an entirely different world, the world in which her boyfriend--and Anita--really belong. Here, she is Tania, the seventh princess of Faerie.
But all isn't joyful. The kingdom is mourning the death of her mother, and her eldest sister refuses to see her. And more importantly, there is a traitor in their midst...
THE FAERIE PATH was very charming and yet mysterious at the same time. The writing has a slight tendency to bog the reader down every once in a while, but the numerous plot twists keep the book from getting boring. Full of intriguing details and breathtaking descriptions, the story reads like your favorite fairy tale, and the surprise ending will leave you waiting in anticipation for the sequel, THE LOST QUEEN.
Ashley B. (daredevilgirl013) reviewed The Faerie Path (Faerie Path, Bk 1) on + 746 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This book was a good read. I just wish it would have moved a bit faster. It focused on everyone trying to get Anita to realize who she was (a faerie princess) and that the faerie world is where she belongs in, and you constantly had to listen to her going, I don't remember that..I don't remember anything. A bit annoying.
Otherwise the story flows well of the Anita being taken away from the mortal world to the faerie world when she has a boating accident and ends up in the hospital. She soon realizes that she is the seventh daughter of the king and was granted the powers to go between the mortal world and the faerie world. She tries to remember who she is and why she's there (as noted above) while still trying to get back to the mortal world to contact her parents to let them know what happened to her.
This story does invovle a slight twist of a mystery as a book as given to Anita that has her life written down in it, and she doesn't know who gave her the book.
Otherwise the story flows well of the Anita being taken away from the mortal world to the faerie world when she has a boating accident and ends up in the hospital. She soon realizes that she is the seventh daughter of the king and was granted the powers to go between the mortal world and the faerie world. She tries to remember who she is and why she's there (as noted above) while still trying to get back to the mortal world to contact her parents to let them know what happened to her.
This story does invovle a slight twist of a mystery as a book as given to Anita that has her life written down in it, and she doesn't know who gave her the book.
Helpful Score: 2
I love faerie books. I really, really do. Having read all of Holly Black and Melissa Marr's series, I was looking in the YA section for a new take. A 12 yr old recommended this one to me.
*sigh*
I couldn't make it past the first chapter. It was so... childishly written (the main character has all the makings of a Mary Sue, perfect and loved by everyone, talented and wonderful... and the author plunks her down in front of the mirror on the first page to describe how pretty she is.) And it only gets more syrupy and sparkly after that.
So my advice? Skip it. Go get some REAL fairy/fae/ fairie books that don't have a soppy main character written with all the cliche of a jr. high girl's first fanfic.
Harsh? Yes. But check out the the authors I mentioned above. Then you'll see how well YA fiction can be written.
*sigh*
I couldn't make it past the first chapter. It was so... childishly written (the main character has all the makings of a Mary Sue, perfect and loved by everyone, talented and wonderful... and the author plunks her down in front of the mirror on the first page to describe how pretty she is.) And it only gets more syrupy and sparkly after that.
So my advice? Skip it. Go get some REAL fairy/fae/ fairie books that don't have a soppy main character written with all the cliche of a jr. high girl's first fanfic.
Harsh? Yes. But check out the the authors I mentioned above. Then you'll see how well YA fiction can be written.
Shannon M. (confuzzledbooks) reviewed The Faerie Path (Faerie Path, Bk 1) on + 482 more book reviews
From beginning to finish I enjoyed this book. It is a bit girly not just because of it being about Faerie but the mention of parallel between Romeo and Juliet. Evan/Elrich mentions many time that Juliet is the sun meaning Anita/Tania is his sun or so it appears at first.
So there is romance, faeries, and danger what more could a girl ask for. Not much really. I will be enjoying the next couple books from this series.
So there is romance, faeries, and danger what more could a girl ask for. Not much really. I will be enjoying the next couple books from this series.
Anita is an ordinary girl living an ordinary life....or so she thought. Anita discovers she is actually the lost princess, Tania, of Faerie. Now that she must re-meet her father and sisters, who make up the royal family. While fighting for her true love.
