Will I love An Enchantment of Ravens?

This book is charming, charming, charming. Did I mention that it’s charming? But it’s not all sweetness and light. I love books that weave together beauty and danger, and dazzle me with imagery that paints vivid pictures in my head. The prose is extraordinary, full of deception, danger, romance and glamour, hard choices, and sinister forces. The fair folk are exquisitely described, but beneath their perfect exteriors, they are opportunists, decaying, hollow, and cruel. The writing is quite beautiful, the plot and characters entrancing. I wish this was a series because I had a serious book hangover upon closing the… show more.

This book perfectly balances the twists with a gentle romance, something that I personally believe is essential to all great books. Isobel is incredibly intriguing because she has no desire to join the fair folk and have eternal life and eternal youth. The decision would cost her her desire to create art, and it’s not something she’s willing to give up even with a handsome tempter. At every point her decisions surprised me and kept me longing for more.