The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door Published by Orbit on October 22, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Alternative History, Fiction / Fantasy / Historical, Fiction / Occult & Supernatural
Pages: 464
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From the author of The Magician's Daughter comes The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a mythic, magical tale full of secret scholarship, faerie curses, and the deadliest spells of all—the ones that friends cast on each other.
All they needed to break the world was a door, and someone to open it.
Camford, 1920. Gilded and glittering, England's secret magical academy is no place for Clover, a commoner with neither connections nor magical blood. She's there only to find a cure for her brother Matthew, one of the few survivors of a deadly faerie attack on the battlefields of WWI.When Clover catches the eye of golden boy Alden Lennox-Fontaine and his friends, doors that were previously closed to her are flung wide open, and she soon finds herself enmeshed in the seductive world of the country's magical aristocrats. But the summer she spends in Alden’s orbit leaves a fateful mark: months of joyous friendship and mutual study come crashing down when experiments go awry, and old secrets are unearthed. The consequences will only be truly understood many years later, when it's too late...
"Part historical fantasy, part campus novel, and entirely magical. An unputdownable, bittersweet tale." —Allison Saft
“By turns wondrous, haunting, and mysterious. Historical fantasy at its finest." —Olivia Atwater
"A brilliant story of magic and scholarship and ambition. A marvelous, thought-provoking, captivating novel." —Kat Howard
Review:
This was a lovely story of fairies and academia and even magic, although that is a more minor part than I thought it would be. Character-driven, Clover wants to be a magical scholar at Camford, the magical academy. When there, she meets those who will change everything. Making bargains with fairies is never a good idea. Clover is left to save them all.
I enjoyed the world in this story: the fairy’s doors, the plants, the magic, and even the school itself. Clover is supported by some excellent side characters that I enjoyed. It’s nice to read a standalone that is done so well. I was hooked when Clover was in a library, and one of the other characters asked, What are you reading? Who knew a simple question could blossom into a whole life blooming, with love, heartache, and a monstrous problem that between friends tries to remain a secret but never manages to stay that way?
About H.G. Parry
H.G. Parry lives in a book-infested flat in Wellington, New Zealand, which she shares with her sister and two overactive rabbits. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and teaches English, Film, and Media Studies. Her short fiction has appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, and small press anthologies. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep is her debut novel.
Your Bookly graphic makes me wish I had more time to use it! This sounds like a good one, and I think I remember hearing about the first one by this author too. Great review!
Thanks so much for consisten comments on my blog. Sometimes i wonder if i just wasting my time with posting. So should i include that graphic on more posts. I trying to see if makes me stand out more uniquely. Like with the author information do you find that helpful? Your the only one who i see regular comments from. With the bookly app i just start everytime i read and stop it when i done. It just an issue of mmaking it a habiit when your reading. if i forget they have the option to add your session in for the book.
It’s up to you, but I enjoy seeing those kinds of graphics! I just use StoryGraph and Goodreads already and just can’t add one more thing, I did like it while I tried it for a month. I blog for myself and try to get around to comment on other blogs too. I have a few regulars that I make sure to comment on and usually they comment back, but not always. I enjoy reading your reviews and posts, so do what works for you!