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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Fun Diversion, Better than I expected, February 22, 2007
More enjoyable than I expected. Anita is a pretty typical teenager, she has just turned sixteen as the events of the novel unfold. She and her boyfriend, Evan are on a boating trip when things go awry. The boat crash is the catalyst for all of the rest of the events.
Anita find herself transported/lured into a world that mirrors her own in many ways, but is also very different. Though she suspects that these are the hallucinations of her mind--due to the accident, she tries to cope as best as she can. In the world she is told she is the long lost seventh daughter of Oberon and Titiania (yup).
Antia/Tania suspects there is more to the story than that, and the rest of the book unfolds. It was sweet and attention grabbing. Though the book is about an older girl it would be appropriate for any age really, while Anita and Evan kiss and so on there isn't any overt displays of affection in the book to be worried about.
This is the begining of a series it looks like, as there is a second one in the works, one I wouldn't be unwilling to read.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Faerie Path is interesdting!, March 26, 2007
A Kid's Review
The story is about a fifteen year old girl. The day before her birthday her boyfriend takes her on a ride in a motorboat, they hit a bridge, and both of them of them are taken to a hospital. She has a strange dream and wakes up on the floor. Before her dream she is given a magical blank book. Her boyfriend goes missing after the dream. She has another dream, or so she thinks. From then on she is in the magical land of Faerie. There she finds her six sisters and her true father. The rest of the book is a whirlwind as she finds out who she truly is.
It is a bit confusing as to who is good and who is bad. Her few travels to the "Mortal World" are very brief and cause a little more confusion, but the story and detail are wonderful. That fact that a few of the characters are from Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer's Night Dream," is really cool. This book is very exciting and descriptive. I look forward to book 2 in this series.
Rachel, under 13 - south plains
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29 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Eye-crossingly boring..., June 24, 2007
I wanted to like this book. I really did. I love books about fairies, and after just finishing Holly Black's Ironside, I was on the lookout for something equally as engrossing, entertaining, and moving. Unfortunately, I was barking up the wrong tree when I took this tripe off the shelf.
Let me start off by saying that the characters in this book are the flattest, most uninteresting lot I have ever encountered. Not a single one had any depth at all, with Anita/Tania being the worst. She wasn't so much a heroine as simply a cardboard cutout, just sort of propped up there and barely taking part in her own story. Although I guess I can't really blame her, as being bland and cliched seems to run in her family. Just look at the boring stock characters her sisters are comprised of...there's the nerdy bespectacled sister who just sits in the library all day and only wears drab dark clothing, there's the silly sister who likes to joke around, etc. Oh, and Lord Drake? He was such a generic, run-of-the-mill badguy, I'm surprised he wasn't twirling the end of his mustache around in typical villain fashion. The poor, downtrodden little assistant being the one who truly loved her? Wow, totally never saw THAT before *rolls eyes*
as for the storyline itself, it was weak, predictable and trite. Seriously, there was not a single surprise or twist to be had in this whole boring mess. And what I found to be especially irksome was how silly some of the scenes were. Like one of the previous reviewers pointed out, the story kicks off with Anita and her boyfriend driving around in a boat. How're these two 16-year-olds even allowed to be operating a boat without any adult supervision? Yeah, I know you're supposed to suspend disbelief and all, but that's just dumb. And when Anita is finally reunited with her fairy sisters after about 500 hundred years, what do they do? They immediately go out and order dresses. Yeah, they really missed her, eh?
There are far better YA fantasy and paranormal romance books out there, such as The Modern Faerie Tales trilogy by Holly Black or Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. Try those instead, you won't be dissapointed.
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