Margaret Rogerson's An enchantment of ravens is a magical fairy tale about forbidden love, spiced with an elegant and dark style.

Welcome to Whimsy, a literally enchanted town. A popular place for the beautiful, but deadly fair folk, who love human Craft and often pay for it with enchantment. The town has shops with delicious cakes, beautiful clothes, and the finest art. One of the people with Craft is Isobel, the young, but very talented portrait artist. Her paintings are highly prized and she knows the mysterious fair folk enough well, to be able to get always the most useful enchantments as a payment. She lives with her aunt, Emma, and her two adopted little sisters, who were originally goats, but thanks to magic, they became human children. Isobel's life is peaceful, until she receives a royal patron, Rook, the autumn prince. After the girl paints mortal sorrow into his face, the enraged prince spirits Isobel away to the Autumnlands to stand trial for it. However in the fairy lands both of their life is in danger, and they have to learn to trust each other. And this trust grows into something really dangerous. Love. Love, which is forbidden between a fae and a mortal.

What I like the most in this book, the way it talks about the fae. In most novels they are only like beautiful and immortal people, but in this story they are, what they are in legends and myths. A beautiful and mysterious race, which is deadly and definitely not human. Something dark and tempting, which lives near the people since ages and can easily toy with those, who does not know how to talk and interact with it. I really enjoyed also how dark and mysterious the world of fair folk was under the glamour.

Shortly, I like the book. The story and the characters are good and I really enjoyed the dark and mysterious feeling, which it gives, meantime the style is elegant, like a classic fairy tale.


ISBN number:
ISBN-13: 9781481497589
ISBN-10: 1481497588