"Don't be afraid of the unknown merely because it's unknown. I have no doubt your strengths will see you through this."
Oh my god. This was perfect. The perfect faerie book, I've never really liked faerie books/never really gotten into them but this series has blown my mind! Such a unique series, I recommend reading it.
Rebecca, or Becca has been a waitress for two years, and after an exhausting night slugging away table after table, so she decides that she can do better, I mean she has a degree so why not?! So she leaves her 2 week notice and quits, and like the next day she ends up landing her dream job at a museum in Belfast, Ireland.
'A life lived in fear is a life half lived.'
After moving to Ireland, Rebecca steps off the plane, immediately, starts encountering strange men and even more surprisingly, strange creatures, and comes face to face with her living nightmares rather than her dreams.
She is thrown into the world of Fae, meeting people who tell her strange, wondrous, and sometimes conflicting things. Rebecca realizes that all her answers are either held by Lochlan, an utterly gorgeous but rude, she wants him to give her answers and demands complete honesty, yet he doesn't, and Ronan, charming but mysterious, more willing to give up information, but not entirely trustworthy. Honestly, when we first meet Ronan at the museum he gave off a weird vibe. I'm not going to give too much away, you NEED to read this book, because there are soo many things you won't expect. BUT who will Rebecca trust when her life depends on it? - though, I just realized I have shared a quote that will clearly tell you... oops.. not going to tell you where to find it....
“Crawling around on the table was a tiny man gathering crumbs. He was about six inches tall, if he were to stand up. He had greenish skin with brown hair and appeared similar to a doll-sized human wearing little scraps of clothing. Sensing he had an audience, the little man also froze. His already large eyes opened even farther as we held each other’s stare and time seemed to stand still. The moment ended in an instant when the man vanished, like a bubble that burst, he was just gone.”
This is the kind of book that sticks with you days after you've read it. It has romance, action, faeries, folklore... did I mention romance?!
I loved the the fairy tale/folklore concepts that are twisted into this novel and the mixture of Arthurian legends, it's not often that different myths are combined and done well. I loved we get to learn about the fae alongside Rebecca, which makes the world the author created feel really realistic. Honestly the story falls together really neatly, the plot was interesting, and the world building equally as intriguing.
The cliffhanger ending though!!! :c
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