Review: Very Beautiful Story and Characters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
I really liked this book.  I thought it was a very cute, perfect YA book.  Almost 16 year old Maia spent her whole life trying not to be popular, but couldn't be mean to people, so ended up being the most popular girl in school her entire life.  If she had her way, it would've been just her and her best friend, Mike, who had been her best friend since kindergarten.Just when she thought her unwanted popularity was her biggest issue, she finds out her parents aren't who she thinks they are.  And oh yeah...she's a fae princess.  Not just a fae princess, but a VERY important one.  In one day, she finds out that fae exist, her real parents are fae, there's a whole other fae world called Ranym which is about to be in an important battle, and meets Heaton, who is sworn to protect her for the rest of her life.  Oh yeah...and she's going to have to get over that "not wanting to be popular" thing really quick.It was actually hard for me to decide in this book if l liked Maia more, or if I liked the 2 leading men in her life, Mike and Heaton, more.  All 3 together were for sure entertaining!  All the characters in the book are very endearing, even the ones you only meet briefly.  It leads you to hope you get to know more of them in future books. Especially those that you meet in Ranym - and Ranym itself - what a beautifully described land, where even the castle is made of a giant, beautiful tree!This book was a perfect set up for a book 2.  You get a very good feeling of how torn she is to want to live her life in both the fae world, and the human world; both equally important in life, friends and parents.  And just when you think she's got it figured out how to balance the two worlds perfectly, you find at the end that it may not end up being so easy!I will most definitely be reading the next book (in what I am assuming/hoping is a series), and look forward to finding out more about Ranym, it's people, Maia's new role in life, and her leading man (and I won't spoil it by saying who it is)!This Review is copyrighted. Please do not share without giving Paranormal Reads/Erin full credit.