Staff review by C.O.
At first, I thought this was going to be your typical faerie princess story -- where princess meets prince, princess loses prince, and then in the end the princess gets her prince and lives happily ever after. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that this wasn’t the case.
Anita Palmer was living the typical British teenage life, with school, friends, a boyfriend, and parents. But what she didn’t know was that she was in fact the Princess Tania, the lost princess of Faerie and the youngest daughter of King Oberon and Titania. On her 16th birthday, she finds herself in a boating accident with her boyfriend Evan, landing her in the hospital with no recollection of what happened. Evan has disappeared and a mysterious book is mailed to her. When she opens the book, she finds that the pages look empty ... but are they really? Believing that she is suffering ill effects from the boating accident, she hears a mysterious voice calling to her. What comes next is both exciting and frightening for young Anita -- when she finds herself in the land of Faerie.
While in Faerie, Anita meets Gabriel Drake, a man with power and evil on his mind. (He's also the man who brings through the fold into Faerie.) As Tania, she'd been engaged to Gabriel but had vanished on the eve of her wedding. She also meets up with the missing Evan, who's also in the land of Faerie -- and who has been working for Gabriel. She feels betrayed and hurt because she really believed the love shared between her and Evan was real. She doesn’t know what to think now.
Anita also finds out that she is one of seven daughters of the royal house. Each sister has different magical powers and Anita/Tania finds out that her magical power is the ability to travel between the two worlds. She meets her father, King Oberon, but finds out that her mother the Queen is dead. But is she? Something is fishy and Anita/Tania must find out what really happened.
The land of Faerie is nothing she could ever imagine, but she is torn between the love of her mortal family living in England and the duty she feels towards her Faerie family and the kingdom of Faerie. She has to make a choice, but what that choice will be has everyone guessing. The land of Faerie, the people she meets, the sisters she comes to love -- they all play a part in her decision. One thing she does know is the love she feels for her sisters: Eden, Sancha, Zara, Cordelia, Hopie and Rathina. One of them is harboring a dark secret which could tear the land of Faerie apart.
One of my favorite characters was Cordelia, because she shared a special bond with the animals, and they in turn were very loyal to her. When called upon, the animals were a great help in Anita/Tania’s quest.
I enjoyed the story of Anita/Tania and all that happens to her. Does she discover what happened to her mother, Queen Tantia? Does she fulfill her fate? Does she stay in Faerie or go home to her mortal parents? Come join me in finding out what happens to Anita/Tania as she follows her destiny.
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