A new twist to the usual fantasy saga. Very Irish - I didn't check if the author is from there, but the names and backstory about the Fai have that feel, you know? It was refreshing to have a female protagonist for a change. I didn't skim through, which I have to confess I often do, which says a lot for the writing and plot. I actually bought book 2 - can't wait to read it! ( )

This is one of those books that I must have picked up on sale sometime lately. It was on my Kindle, and I started reading. It's sort of an old fashioned fantasy, starting with a tree who wakes up as a young woman then sets out on a quest with a wise old man as her guardian and gets embroiled in fairy wars. I enjoyed it, but I didn't find anything in it that really compelled me -- the language sometimes had me wanting to reach for a red pen (it wasn't terrible, just not as good as it could have been), the characters were good but not great, and the end? The book left off mid-stride, not with a cliff-hanger so much as with a complete lack of resolution. The next book is out now, and I'm considering picking it up but I'm not sure that I will.