Image is of FairyLoot Sepcial Edition
Rating: 5 stars
Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Urban Fantasy
Tags: Circus, Immortals, Mages, Magic, Orphans, Secret Society, Unwanted, Vampire Hunters, Vampires, Book Review
I found this book because of someone’s unboxing video on BookTube of the FairyLoot monthly crate from December 2022. I saw the special edition book and fell in love with the edition, so much so that I went on-line and found a copy of the edition and bought it.
That being said that I read a digital version of the book before I bought the hardcover edition.
This story follows Ava who is living in foster care with her brother. She is about to age out and feels like she doesn’t belong. With her own self-appointed quest, she is trying to find a vampire who murdered her mother. She stumbles upon something truly magical.
The characters in this story are brilliant. They are dynamic and well developed. It is categorized as a young adult fiction, but most of the characters are eighteen or older and feels a little like a young new adult more to me, but the spice level is a very slow burn. Which may be the reason that it is young adult. I also enjoyed the magic explanation of this world. Where it works on a belief system were you need to not just your own, but the belief for those around you that makes the impossible possible.
This book I read in a day as it kept me turning each page as fast as I finished the last. I love the story and its characters. Since this is not part of a series, I will follow Margie Fuston to see what else she will be writing.
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Pages: 509
Read: Digital Book but I own a Hardcover copy that I got after reading it.
From: Bought
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““The perfect sinisterly magical escape…full of longing, desperation, and betrayal.” —Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval trilogy and Once Upon a Broken Heart
Caraval meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this “beguiling” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) young adult fantasy about a girl who makes a deal with a magical secret society to enter a potentially deadly competition for the chance to avenge her mother’s death.
Ever since a vampire murdered her mother, Ava has been determined to get revenge. This all-encompassing drive has given her the fuel she needed to survive foster home after foster home.
But it’s been ten years since anyone’s seen a vampire, and Ava has lost hope that she’ll ever find one…until she stumbles across a hidden magic show where she witnesses impossible illusions. The magicians may not be the bloodsuckers she’s hunting, but Ava is convinced something supernatural is at play, so she sneaks backstage and catches them in acts they can’t explain.
But they’ve been waiting for her.
The magicians reveal they’re part of an ancient secret society with true magic, and Ava has the same power in her blood that they do. If she joins them, they promise to teach her the skills she needs to hunt vampires and avenge her mother. But there’s a catch: if she wants to keep the power they offer, she needs to prove she’s worthy of it. And to do so, she must put on the performance of her life in a sinister and dangerous competition where illusion and reality blur, and the stakes are deadly.”
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