While I really enjoyed this novel, I am struggling to summarize it as it is quite unusual. The first in a series, at times I was reminded of Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Twilight, Hunger Games, Beauty an the Beast, even Labyrinth, but it is still absolutely unique story itself.
It is the story of a mortal human young woman named Fayre who is tasked with keeping her father and sisters alive in a bleak world full of misery and poverty. She has become a master huntress in order to keep her family from starving.
One day while hunting in the woods that border her human world with the faerie, whom humans hate and fear, she encounters a deer, and while hunting it, she discovers a wolf who also has interest in the deer. Not wanting her hungry family to suffer, she kills them both, meaning they can eat and sell the pelts.
It isn't until later, when a monstrous creature appears, furious, at her home, that she learns the wolf she killed was actually a faerie in disguise. She has broken an ancient treaty the humans had with the Fae. As retribution, the beast insists that Fayre come to his land (called Prythian) to live the rest of her life away from her family.
Once there, she discovers that the beast is actually an immortal and magic faerie named Tamlin, one of the high lords of Prythian. Over time, she discovers that everything she has always been taught about the "evil faerie" is untrue, and that perhaps the humans are the real treacherous creatures. The more that she learns about Tamlin and Prythian, she comes to feel at home and her mistrust turns to love.
All would be perfect in her new world... except for an ancient curse that threatens all of Prythian.
A thoroughly fun and entertaining read! I think teenagers would like this book as well. Girl Power.
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