Review: Budding Magic by L S Fayne is Blooming Beautifully
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2012
Budding Magic by L S Fayne, the first book in the fantasy fiction series, is a wondrous and beautiful telling of the tale of the O'Byrne Daughters.  The children of Aine and Keegan O'Byrne have all inherited the magic that runs through their lineage; this novel explores their lives during and after the passing of their parents. The cover does not do justice to the content. It is a magnificent tale, which is wonderfully written.The title of main character is passed from parent to child and then shared by the daughters themselves, much like the magic running through the characters' veins.  Each character is painstakingly crafted with just enough description to create a vivid and elaborate image in the reader's mind of this beautiful portion of Ireland and its inhabitants.  This novel enfolds the reader in the tale and builds its world around each to place him or her at the heart of the story.  Fayne has created a storyline, and the telling there of, that not only gives the reader a front row seat to the happenings, but pulls each into the tale to feel and be transported by its words.The plot is highly developed and beautifully written. Each movement of the characters affects his or her surrounding landscape as if Aine herself had charmed the very land.  The tale is straightforward, but far from plain.  Many writers would stumble trying to create such an intricate tale, but Fayne does so seemingly effortlessly and the reader is all the better for it.  From the Emerald Isles to the reader's hands, this is magic not to be dismissed.