Fantastical by Kristen Ashley

Fantastical (Fantasyland, #3)

by Kristen Ashley

Cora Goode has woken up in a fairytale world where she can understand what birds are saying to her, men ride horses and have fluffy feathers in their hats and furniture zigs, zags and whirls in miracles of construction.

The problem is, she thinks she’s in a dream but she’s actually taken the place of the parallel universe Cora and without realizing it, our Cora does something that starts a centuries old curse that will sweep the land if she gets captured by the evil Minerva.

At this point, her dream world becomes a nightmare.

Luckily, hot guy, fantasyland Noctorno is there to save her from the clutches of the grotesque vickrants sent by Minerva to capture her. Unfortunately, hot guy, fantasyland Noctorno doesn’t like the Cora of his world all that much (to say the least) and he thinks our Cora is her. And no matter what our Cora says or does to try to convince him, he won’t be convinced.

But Cora needs Tor to keep her safe and guide her through this fantastical world as she hopes one day to wake up in her not-so-great apartment in her not-so-great life in her world. The problem is, the more time she spends with the gorgeous warrior Tor, the faster she falls in love with him.

Reviewed by stacey_is_sassy on

5 of 5 stars

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I cried AGAIN.

I know what's coming, know it's going to hurt but it still messes with me. That birthday cake scene does me in EVERY BLOODY TIME!

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Fantastical made me cry...IN PUBLIC!!

Hi, my name is Sassy and I'm addicted to WiFi. It's been 72 hours since my last good signal...AND I'M HAVING WITHDRAWLS!! This review will be really short because my symptoms have left me jittery and FRUSTRATED.

For a story that made me cry...on a train platform, I loved it. Fantastical is one of those books where for a glimpse of time you absolutely HATE the hero. Eventually, you forgive him and learn to love him. In this case, he wasn't fully to blame for his monumental stuff up. But...he hurt me...I mean Cora.

I love the characters, humour, frustrations, steamy scenes and the storyline.

Fantastical is the third book in one of my favourite series. Kristen Ashley does her best work in this series (in my opinion) giving us alternative universes, evil witches, dashing heroes and quirky lovable heroines. Tillie Hooper is becoming one of my favourite narrators. Her skill in changing voices and accents makes it easy to tell the characters apart.

I'm taking a break from the Fantasyland series but I will definitely be back soon.

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