Since their family lost all their fortune in a tragic incident, Fayre has been providing for them. The youngest of three daughters, a huntress, Fayre hunts food and raises her family including a crippled father, two indifferent elder sisters.
When she spots a wolf one day during her hunt, she thinks that the chance is too good to be missed and hunts the beast.
What she doesn't know is she has accidentally killed a faerie in the form of a deadly wolf. A life for a life, Fayre is then carried away to the realm beyond, Pyrthian, by a Beast so that she can pay for her actions.
The beast who has entrapped her in his manor is no one else but the High fae of the spring court, Tamlin.
The story progresses as we learn about a curse that is trying to rot the land of faerie, a possible blight and the dark secrets of the spring court itself.
I have no idea why this book is so popular. Honestly I didn't enjoy it as much as the air folk trilogy. This is simply a beauty and the beast retelling, if belle had wanted to paint instead of write and if the evil witch that had cursed the prince was yet to be defeated by...you guessed it, belle.Although I should admit the writing style is pretty good and the first and last quarter of the book didn't let me put it down. Still I ended up skimmimg most of it, especially the middle part.
All in all, the book is nice but not that grand. If you enjoy YA romance and fantasy books with enemies to lovers trope and classic retellings, than this book is for you.
And on a sidenote, the series is quite long, with 5 books, each book no less than 500 pages and more. So you do need a lot of free time to read the whole series. More importantly only the first book can be regarded as YA the rest of the books are quite elaborate and definitely not meant for YA audience. That is one of another reasons I didn't enjoy this book.
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