The Faerie Path

The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones begins on Anita’s sixteenth birthday. So far, Anita’s life has been pretty perfect. She has understanding parents, good friends, and a fantastic boyfriend named Evan. The only weird part of her life is the occasional episode of déjà vu, though she doesn’t think anything of it until a speedboat accident with Evan lands her in the hospital.

There, her déjà vu and vision worsen until one vision brings her to Lord Gabriel Drake, who she follows to the realm of Faerie. Everyone there seems to think that she’s Tania, a faerie princess who was lost five hundred years before. Anita isn’t so sure, but nevertheless, she soon finds herself caught in a plot that could destroy all of Faerie.

This book was recommended to me by several different people, so I thought I’d try it. I found it sorely disappointing. The story was okay, but it was the structure that really turned me off. The writing itself was dull… a lot of “was”, “has”, “said”, and other boring words. I just got the feeling that it was targeted more towards kids and less towards teenagers, and no matter how hard I tried to get engaged in the story, I just couldn’t manage it. At the end of the book, I still didn’t care what happened to any of the characters.

2.5 out of 5

~ by Leslie on May 23, 2008.