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Title | A Dark and Hollow Star
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Author | Ashley Shuttleworth
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Publisher | Simon Pulse - 2021
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First Printing | Simon Pulse - 2021
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Title | A Cruel and Fated Light
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Author | Ashley Shuttleworth
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Title | A Grim and Sunken Vow
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Author | Ashley Shuttleworth
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Category | Young Adult
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Arlo, Nausicaä, Aurelian, Vehan, Celadon, Riadne
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Main Elements | Fae
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 A Dark and Hollow Star
Choose your player.
The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.
A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.
A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne.
The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.
For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.
Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. The only question is: which way?
Wish them luck. They’re going to need it.
This was free on rivetedlit.com in the month of January, and the timing was perfect as I had just started a "Fae" themed reading year. The downside is you have to read it online so I read it in bits and pieces across the month, whenever I had time on my computer, this affected of course my ability to easily follow what was going on.
And it's a pretty complex mystery, someone is killing the ironborn, the half-bloods, and the full-blooded fae don't seem to care much. But Arlo cares, after all she is ironborn herself. She apparently doesn't have much in the way of magic, so the Fae court wants to wipe her memories and have her live as a human...but this is one of those "special snowflake" tales so Arlo will of course be super powerful in the end and everything will revolve around her, even the gods noticing her, and this while the gods are not allowed to interfere in our realm anymore. For what it's worth, she didn't annoy me as is common in some of these tales.
Toss in a Fury who has been outcast into our realm, and a couple Fae princes, the Wild Hunt and some sexual tension all about and it made for a decent story with some pretty good worldbuilding. I didn't love it, I didn't hate it, but I will definitely hunt down the other books in the series.
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