An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

An Enchantment of Ravens

by Margaret Rogerson

An instant New York Times bestseller!
An Indie Next Top 10 Pick
A Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner

“A funny, action-packed, and sweet romance.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“A phenomenal read.” —RT Book Reviews

A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts—even as she falls in love with a faerie prince—in this gorgeous bestseller that’s “an ideal pick for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Isobel is an artistic prodigy with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes—a weakness that could cost him his life.

Furious, Rook spirits her away to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. But something is seriously wrong in his world, and they are attacked from every side. With Isobel and Rook depending on each other for survival, their alliance blossoms into trust, then love—and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel.

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3 of 5 stars

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An Enchantment of Ravens

I passed over this at first, thinking it wasn't for me. Not big into faeries, tired of the saturation of faery romance a la a certain someone, and just everything I heard made me go "no".

Then Sorcery of Thorns came. And I feel in love. Just deeply, madly in love.

So I decided that I'd give Enchantment of Ravens a shot. Fate would have it up as free to read on Rivetedlit.com this month. (Feb 2020).

I was pleasently surprised! Her writing is no fluke and gets me. Even if her next read doesn't sound like me again, I'll be trying it out nevertheless.

The former goat twins are a riot.
I enjoy the chaotic evil of these faeries.
I LOVE how Isobel is not swayed by their BS and this enternal life and powers stuff.
Rook being catlike.
Gadfly being...Gadfly.
Surprises and monsters along the way.
I made some connections before Isobel, but she cleverly manuvoured in the situations and saw the big picture in the end.
I read it quickly and enjoyed it the whole way.
It's a typical quick falling, dangerous-being lusty romance. Not my usual or sought after, but it's fun and cute.



Favorite Quotes:
Well, that simply wouldn't do. I hoisted my annoyance back up like a flag on a mast.


They looked like a pair of cupids who had decided they liked shooting people with real arrows betters. They were horrible. I loved them so much.


It feels like having a pair of shackles around our wrists, as light as spirdersilk but strong as iron.


Walking along a blade's edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.


And yet looking at Rook I imagined a cat proudly bringing its master dead chipmunks, only to watch the two-legged oaf lift these priceless gifts by the tail and fling them unceremoniously into the bushes.


"Wake up and infuriate me, please."


"It may be cruel, but it is also fair."


While I puzzled over this, I realized why Rook hadn't been able to finish his sentence. It had been a lie.


She'd accepted that behaving correctly meant not being happy, because that was the way the world worked. She hadn't asked enough--of life, or of herself.


"You are like a living rose among wax flowers."


Through it all Rook wore an expression of aloof perplexity, as a cat might watching its favorite furniture get moved without its permission.



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