This means that these past few weeks have been full of speed reading (or as close to speed reading as a dyslexic student with an eye watering number of essays due can). 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.It’s getting close to the end of the year and the completion of the Goodreads challenge, something I’m behind on at the moment. Isobel has a choice: she can sacrifice her art for a future, or arm herself with paint and canvas against the ancient power of the fairy courts.
There’s only one way to save both their lives, Isobel must drink from the Green Well, whose water will transform her into a fair one-at the cost of her Craft, for immortality is as stagnant as it is timeless. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love, violating the fair folks’ ruthless Good Law. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival.
She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes – a weakness that could cost him his life.įurious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime.
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 among them. Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust.
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