Title: Frey

Author: Melissa Wright

Hi all,

today I lead you back into the fantasy genre with a tale amongst the elves.

From the start you catch on pretty quickly that the main character is different from her elven peers and that she is treated as an outsider, yet it is difficult to grasp why exactly.

Her peers are able to do magic from a young age, yet she is now in her teens and is not really able to, and so she was assigned a separate tutor to teach her at her own pace. It’s not that she can’t do magic, but it’s as if she has a mental block that wants to keep her from being able to reach her full potential.

Eventually she does something that makes the council think she is engaging in dark magic, and they want to sentence her to death. Being 15 years of age (and elves can live for hundreds of years) she would not like having it being cut short right now, so she manages to flee from the council.

She travels with another elf who was a friend of her tutor and they travel to the north, though why they are heading there remains a mystery until the end. On their way they meet up with some of her companion’s friends as well as resistance from the council, who wish to take her back for judgement.

On her way north she has more and more episodes where she faints or simply struggles to keep going, that doesn’t become clear at first, but as they progress to their final destination it becomes much clearer who she truly is and why someone wanted to block out her past.

Summary:

A nice story in the fantasy genre, but remains a teen/young adult story. The frequent block outs that the character has makes it sometimes difficult to follow how the story goes on, but in the end it comes together.

For this book I have allocated a rating of 3.7/5

Have a good one!