Author: Christina Bauer
Series: Fairy Tales of the Magicorum #2
Genre: YA/Urban Fantasy/Romance
Publisher: Monster House Books, LLC
Publication Date: October, 30th 2018
Edition: Kindle Edition
Source: NetGalley
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Synopsis:
After being raised by the meanest fairies in the history of ever, Bryar Rose is now free to live her own life. For the first time, she’s attending West Lake Prep, a regular high school. Well, mostly regular. Some students are actually hidden members of the Magicorum. In other words, they’re really wizards, fairies, or shifters. Bry doesn’t mind, though. She’s thrilled to enjoy all the new experiences of being around normal kids her age, from locker pranks to lunchtime mystery meat. Everything is going along great, except for one thing.
Bry’s dreams about the pyramids of Egypt have gotten darker and more sinister. Every night, she sees her new man Knox and her best friend Elle in danger.
With no other choice, Bry plans to leave school to explore the pyramids on her own. But her new man Knox discovers the scheme and is having none of it. He wants to stay by her side, no matter what. It’s a good thing too, because Bry must solve the mystery of her attraction to the pyramids and soon. Otherwise, it could cost the lives of those she loves most.
And that means not only Knox, but also her best friend Elle.
This book was a lot of fun. I really like these characters and how the romance is angst-free and that there's no love triangle. It's a nice change to the YA Fantasy Romance genre.
Bryar is more of her own person in this book, thanks to her "aunts" no longer being in the picture, and I think she had some pretty great development. We also learn more about Elle and Knox in this book. I found those interesting, and it makes me actually interested in reading Elle's upcoming book.
The plot of this book is a little more straight forward than the first book, but the pacing is a little off. While this book is set during the course of about a week, the pacing felt rushed. I think it would have made more sense to have the time frame be more days so that things could develop better.
There were other small things that I found just odd, like the unnecessary descriptions of how a person is standing, and there were too many hair-flips. Just small details like that, that I didn't think were needed. I would have preferred more descriptions of the various settings they go to.
I really liked the reveal of who exactly Bry is, and what her real Fairytale template is, I wasn't expecting that.
This was a nice end to Bryar and Knox's story, I hope to see them in future books.
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