Author: Chelsea Pitch
Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 360
Published: November 8th 2014
by Flux
ISBN: 9780738740843
Source: Publisher via Netgalley
Description: A Kingdom at War . . . Elora,
the young princess of the Dark Faeries, plans to overthrow her
tyrannical mother, the Dark Queen, and bring equality to faeriekind. All
she has to do is convince her mother’s loathed enemy, the Bright Queen,
to join her cause. But the Bright Queen demands an offering first: a
human boy who is a “young leader of men.” A Dark Princess In Disguise . . . To
steal a mortal, Elora must become a mortal—at least, by all
appearances. And infiltrating a high school is surprisingly easy. When
Elora meets Taylor, the seventeen-year-old who’s plotting to overthrow a
ruthless bully, she thinks she’s found her offering . . . until she
starts to fall in love.
I Give This ...
I don't particularly like giving negative reviews. I feel I tend to be very open minded and rarely come across a book that I don't find enjoyable in some small way. Even rarer still is the book I give up on completely. With this one, I fought for every page trying to find the small moments.
I think I struggled with many different aspects of this book. The fae world being strange and different than typical stories was a little of off putting. Especially when that world is put together for us piece by little piece. I also had a hard time with Elora. She's trying to overthrow her mother, who is The Dark Queen, plus instigating revolutions in the human world. You would think this might make her a bad ass. She just doesn't come across that way and I wasn't buying into it. I just didn't feel the charisma she seemed to possess.
I did like Taylor and felt the struggle with his own identify and his relationship with his parents was genuine. I wasn't over the moon about the love at first sight tone his relationship with Elora took. But, I was expecting it at the same time. I also liked how the book became about more than just saving the Fae world. Not many books will attempt to tackle more than one difficult subject in one sitting.
But, in the end, this was a struggle. It was hard for me to appreciate it for what it was. Maybe next time!
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