Barren fruit trees begin bearing beautiful fruit as magic seeps into a small town. Something is wrong in Faerie and the town of Berrie-on-the-Wyn is somehow caught in the middle.
I liked this book, unconventional as it is. The prose is old-fashioned but once you get used to it, strangely hypnotic. The characters are varied (and a bit hard to keep track of) but give the book a delightful small-town feel. There are no huge surprises in store but the little ones keep it interesting.
The climax of the book was a little confusing and it veered between over-explanation and leaving the reader hanging. I might need to do a full reread to see what I missed, because even now, the finer details leave me a little uncertain.
There was no big conflict, no sense of tension in this book, but the writing is beautiful and I enjoyed reading it, and in the end that’s all you can ask of a book.
Four jewelled stars
I received a copy of this story from the author through ReadingAlley in exchange for an honest review.
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