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Rating: 5 out of 5
Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy, YA, 5 Stars, Romance
People who should read this: If you love faerie stories with a lot of romance and a swoon worth lead.
I never thought I could love a faerie book.
Enter An Enchantment of Ravens.
I would like to thank my friend for forcing me to borrow the book and for the corona virus for keeping it in my hands. Essentially, to put in more explanation, my friend loaned me the book after I loved A Sorcery of Thorns. I almost gave it back without reading it though, because I was drowning in my required reading and I didn’t know when I would get to it. I’m not one that likes keeping stuff that isn’t mine. Case in point… the recent events where I almost lost two of my books. In the end, I would have gotten four more so I think it would have worked out, but in the end, each person ended up back with their own books. Anyways… back to the original story line. She told me to keep An Enchantment of Ravens a little longer, and because of the virus, I’ve had it for an extra 6 month. But those months meant that I finally got around to reading it and I’m so glad that I did.
That was a very long story when you came here for a book review.
To say it all in one sentence - I desperately want to own the book and I hope to meet the author some day. I also hope to write romance as well as she does. That was two sentences. Who’s counting?
It’s a tiny little book that doesn’t even make it to 300 pages. Yet within those pages there’s an epic adventure. This is all fine and dandy if the writing wasn’t so hard to get into. I needed to pay close attention to every single word because every sentence was packed full of important information. Lose your train of thought for one second and the characters could be in a completely different world. Somehow, with all of this, Rogerson was still able to keep her writing lyrical with superb descriptions. It was like she carefully, hand picked every single word in her book. I’m not saying that all writers don’t do that, but some of us can get… how do I say this nicely… wordy.
See above for a case in point.
Everything about this review is extra.
You may be here for the adventure, but I’m sure you’ll be staying for the romance. An Enchantment of Ravens is set up to be the insta-love story of the decade. Girl meets a faerie. Girl falls immediately in love with said faerie. I don’t know how you get around insta-love in such a short story, especially when the guy practically kidnaps you. Stockholm syndrome much? Well Rogerson found a way to skirt all of that. This love story was one of the most believable one’s I’ve read. And somehow she managed to fit in an enemies to lovers trope. How?
In the end, their witty back and forth and need to save each other stole my heart.
Before I leave you with the strong words of GO READ THIS BOOK, we need to address the elephant in the room. My extreme dislike for faerie books. I don’t get them as a fairytale creature. They’re vile creatures that want to trick people. Maybe my dislike is because Holly Black was my first taste and I wasn’t impressed. Why do people love these creatures? So many people ship them with human characters. Whelp, Rogerson cured me. I understand fully. I might even be tempted to try another Black book. For the first time I can understand. Rogerson painted the rules clearly and in a believable manner. As you know, if you make something believable, I will follow you off a cliff.
Here’s to praying to the book gods that Rogerson will write another faerie love story. If I can’t get that, then I at least pray that she keeps writing love stories.
Happy Reading
Love Kait
Reading Challenge: 127/175