Hi! This is my first, official review of this month's #FaeFebruary! To start of I want to talk about Margaret Rogerson's An Enchantment of Ravens. A standalone, faerie novel with fluffy romance and fun characters! I have already read Rogerson's Sorcery of Thorns which I enjoyed a lot. I had An Enchantment of Ravens on my tbr for the longest time, so this was the perfect opportunity for me to read this book and discuss it here!
An Enchantment of Ravens is a light YA fantasy novel with a fun magic system and good worldbuilding. I'm always so impressed when the worldbuilding is done right in standalone novels. In series, authors have a lot more pages to work with, to develop their world and explain it to the reader. In a single novel, this is definitely more challenging. Rogerson creates a 'simple' world, with 4 courts related to the seasons and a human village (town?) Whimsey. Here, we meet the main character of the novel Isobel. The fantastical element of the novel is (of course) the faeries, or fair folk as they are called. I found Rogerson's take on fae very original even though it does have some clichés too. One of the things that are well known or faeries is that they cannot lie, which was the case here too. Of course, their appearance was also 'cliché', long and handsome. Yet, I don't know, how she put them to paper it felt new and refreshing.
Craft is very important in the novel. Isobel is a master of the craft. She creates portraits of the fair folk in exchange for enchantments that keep her safe. These must be well-phrased, otherwise, the fair folk will put tricks to humans. They cannot speak lies but are good with words and tricks. The fair folk is not capable of making craft, which means that they adore it even more. They use glamour (their magic) for their appearance and are not capable to feel human emotions. Which are two other clichés.
When Isobel meets Rook the story takes up its pace. At the start of the book, I found that things were going very fast yet for a 300-page novel, it must be. Like I said, it is a light novel, yet for someone like me, it hits all the right things. The faerie-related elements were fun to read, and the romance was cute and fluffy. Both characters have fun personalities and the plot of the novel was a lot of fun!
To think that this was a 300-page novel is kind of unbelievable. The content was a detailed and well thought of. I can definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants to get into fae novels! It gives you an idea of what fae are like (even though often some things are not always included in other fae books).
I hope that this gave you a good impression of the book without me spoiling too much! Thank you for reading and I will see you in the next post!
With love,
Julia
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