This was yet another book I was excited about, but it fell flat. I should really stop having high expectations for books, I fear. Can Isobel use her skill to fight the fairy courts? But the biggest threat of all is their growing love for one another. On their way to Rook’s court, they meet ghostly hounds and other hideous monsters.

One day, Isobel receives a royal patron – Rook, the autumn prince -, but when she paints mortal sorrow in his eyes, a furious Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial. These immortal creatures can’t create anything themselves, so they turn to humans to bake bread, weave cloth, and so on. Meet Isobel, a talented portrait artist whose clients are the fair folk.

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson promises the story of a human painter standing up against the ancient power of the faerie courts and falling in love with a faerie prince. School Library Journal (starred review) A phenomenal read.After the futuristic Wildcard, it’s time to dive back into a fantasy setting filled with the Fair Folk. An instant New York Times bestseller! An Indie Next Top 10 Pick A Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner A funny, action-packed, and sweet romance. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts.

With Isobel and Rook depending on each other for survival, their alliance blossoms into trust, then love-and that love violates the fair folks' ruthless laws. But something is seriously wrong in his world, and they are attacked from every side. Furious, Rook spirits her away to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could cost him his life. But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. Isobel is an artistic prodigy with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust.

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