Review: The Farrier's Daughter by Leigh Ann Edwards

Title: The Farrier's Daughter
Author: Leigh Ann Edwards
Series: Irish Witch #1
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Publication Date: July 7th, 2016
Edition: Kindle Edition, 177 pages
Source: NetGalley
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Synopsis:

     In 16th Century Ireland. Young and beautiful Alainn McCreary, healer in training to the powerful O’Brien Clan, is on the cusp of discovering she possesses vast and unusual supernatural powers, which she hopes will help her unlock the secrets of her past and break the curse on the O’Brien Clan.

     Alainn is counseled to hide her magical abilities, but how can she when dark forces rise up to threaten not only the O’Brien Clan, but Alainn and the life of the Chieftain’s beloved, but forbidden nephew, Killian O’Brien, a man Alainn has loved as long as she can remember?

Review:

It's tough for me to start this review. I thought this was a YA book. The cover and the synopsis sounded very "YA" to me. Not that it's a bad thing, but this book isn't exactly YA. The main character, Alainn, is only 17 but her love interest Killian is I think supposed to be around 21. There is also a fair amount of sex and implied sex in this book. But it never gets overly descriptive to the point where it's smut.

The dialog was hard to follow sometimes because the author used slightly Old English for when people spoke. Which makes sense for the setting, but it was sometimes difficult to read, especially at night when I was slightly tired.

While the romance was mainly the focus of the book, it was in a way that made sense, and actually moved the plot along nicely. We all know and have read books where a romance is the focus and it just doesn't work and makes the story a little stagnant. *cough*twilight*cough*.

I wasn't sure how accurate the last names she chose for her characters are. She used a lot of names that started with O' and while that is how some Irish names are, that actually isn't the majority. 

I have already started the second book, and have the rest of the series (all from NetGalley) ready to read. I am pretty excited to read this series. It's really interesting and well written.