Bones of Faerie
Book by: Janni Lee Simner Book Review by: Miranda Fraser (Moses) ISBN:9780375845635 What originally led me to this book for a Halloween story was this excerpt, "Liza's sister is born with faerie pale hair, clear as glass, and Liza's father leaves the baby on a hillside to die." Immediately giving 'Replacement'/'Tithe' vibes of faeries stealing human babies and replacing them with their own. That is not at all how this book goes, btw. But none-the-less the story is in a post-apocalyptic world with faerie magic and dangers around every bend. So, it stays in the Halloween reviews. To start with, I will say this was a very simple novel. The goal was clear from the start and it followed through to the end. But it is also the first book in a Trilogy and I can't help but feel like the next novel will be a little more complicated now that readers are familiar with the world/characters. The book was a very easy read that just flowed from chapter to chapter. Before I knew it, I had finished the book (took about 3 days thanks to an active toddler). But sometimes those easy read novels are the best. They just itch the right spot, you know? Now that I've covered that, essentially the only complaint I've seen about this book in other's reviews, lets move on to the storyline. The book takes place 20 years after a war between faeries and humans. We don't know what years these are because they only refer to them as the "Before" times. BUT we do know that human had advanced technology because they mention airplanes and it's heavily hinted that perhaps an atomic bomb was used. No one says exactly how the war ended but it is made clear that magic tainted the world afterwards. The survivors became fearful of all magic. Liza's father being one of the biggest opposers to magic, setting strict laws to kill anyone who shows signs of magic. After her sister's death Liza's mother runs away. Liza begins to show signs of magic herself and fears for her own life running away from her town. This ends up leading her on an adventure through the post-apocalyptic world where animals, shadows, and even plants cannot be trusted not to kill you. With the help of her cat and her hometown friend, Liza is determined to rescue her mother and learn to control her newly discovered magic. What she does not realize is just how powerful her magic is or how dangerous this mission will become. The truths she will uncover and the lessons she will come to understand. In conclusion, I really enjoyed this story and I am very anxious to read the last two books in the trilogy! I want to know more about the war, what happened to the faerie world and where the faeries went afterwards. Now, I am very hormonal but I will say if babies dying/child loss is a trigger for you there are parts of this book that may be too difficult to read. I cried a lot over the storyline of her baby sister. But again, I am pregnant and extra hormonal, lol. Look forward to future reviews where I will surely cover at least the second book in the trilogy to see if it holds up to the hype of the first one. Read on my fellow book worms. May we one day have Belle's library. And as always, links to the authors pages can be found down below.
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