Review: wow
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2013
Original Post: [...]Review:HOGWARTS ON CRACKYes, I finally rated a book 5 stars!I just find the cover "cheesy"- it shouts "typical story of ordinary girl and enchanted magic". But, I'm happy that Angela from Diversion Books gave me an auto approval for this book or else I would have missed out, BIG TIME.Heroine Ruby is a girl that many readers can relate to. Because of her sick mother, she misses out on school and works in her mother's absence. How selfless is that? Ruby put her education and a potential future at risk to pay for rent and other bills. As a job, Ruby is a housemaid and is working at a mansion... SEX MANSION.My reaction..... what the **** am I reading?It was weird, but a good weird that kept me curious.Author Tamara Blake made the darkest, craziest, unforgettable twist about fairies. The faes in this book are not your typical fairy godmother or tooth fairy that you grew up with... they are crazy! Humans are murdered, chained on leashes and used as toys.Hmm... you just have to read it!I received an advance copy courtesy of Diversion Books and Netgalley.Description:Once upon a time, Ruby believed in magic...When Ruby volunteers to take her mother's housecleaning shift at the gothic Cottingley Heights mansion, she thinks it's going to be business as usual. Clean out the fridge, scrub toilets, nothing too unusual. But nothing could prepare her for the decadent squalor she finds within. Rich people with more money than sense trashing their beautiful clothes and home just because they can. After the handsome Tam discovers her cleaning up after him and his rich friends, Ruby has never felt more like a character from her sister's book of fairy tales.Tam sees beyond Ruby's job and ratty clothes, and sweeps her off her feet, treating her like a real princess, but Ruby is sure this beautiful boy is too good to be true. And as one tragedy after another befalls Ruby and her family, Ruby painfully learns that magic is all too real, and it always comes with a price.