Ever Shade A Dark Faerie Tale Book 1 eBook Alexia Purdy
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Magic and malice abound in the Land of Faerie. This is book 1 of A Dark Faerie Tale Series.
For Shade, a chance meeting with a powerful Teleen Faery warrior who wields electrical currents and blue fires along his skin, has her joining him on a treacherous mission for the good Seelie Faerie Court across the land of Faerie.
Book 2 Ever Fire is Now Available.
Books in this series
Prequel Evangeline
Book 0.1 The Withering Palace
Book 1 Ever Shade
Book 2 Ever Fire
Book 3 Ever Winter
Book 3.5 The Cursed
Book 4 Ever Wrath
Book 5 History of Fire
Book 6 Ever Dead
Book 7 Legends of Fire
Book 8 Guardians of Fire ~Now Available!
Ever Shade A Dark Faerie Tale Book 1 eBook Alexia Purdy
This is a really nice quest story that for a change has a girl as the main character. There are some grammatical errors and it could use a better editor, but it's still a good read. It's written for teens, I believe, so that explains some of the attitudes Shade displays. She is a high school student, pulled into an incredible world and started on a fantastic journey to save the Seelie Fairie Court from war by retrieving special waters from a fountain that only a mixed blood person can approach--someone like Shade. She has a number of companions who help her on her journey and she learns many things and faces deadly enemies while seeking the magical waters. This is supposed to be the first book of a trilogy, but I noticed that there are at least four books in the cycle. I'm not complaining! I'm a little confused, but happy that the story goes on in more books. Some questions are left unanswered in this book, so perhaps the next book, "Ever Fire," will answer them. The pace is rather fast, with few breathers and the main characters are well developed. Shade starts out a typical high school girl, rather prone to curl up with a book rather than go hiking, but her situation gradually changes her to a physically stronger person, more aware of nature.I think girls might like this because it is a quest book with a girl as the heroine. And although she doesn't want to be doing many of the actions she takes (and complains about it), she does what she has to. She gets the job done, like it or not. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series, "Ever Fire." I suspect a few of the situations left open will be finished up, and even if they aren't, I'm sure there will be another great adventure to follow.. Alexia seems to open up a portal that places you directly into the world she has built, so you are there beside the characters, feeling the heat of their sun or the misty coolness of their fog as they rouse an early camp to continue their journey.. This was a very good read and I strongly recommend it.
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Ever Shade A Dark Faerie Tale Book 1 eBook Alexia Purdy Reviews
This was an exciting read. Filled with magic, adventure, and just a touch of romance. The romance hinting towards more in books to come. I enjoyed the twist towards a normal girl who has normal feelings during the entire book. Shade just doesn't jump right in and accept her destiny she tends more towards a scared girl willing to help but powerful when it matters.
A good start to what I hope is a great series.
My Rating 4/5 stars
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Short Summary
After learning that there is more to the world around her than what meets the eye, Shade embarks on a mystical and dangerous quest across Faerie lands with her Faerie warriors at her side.
My Review
I know, I know! They say don't judge a book by the cover, but how can you not? This one is soooo pretty. I got lucky and was pleasantly surprised how much I liked this one when I was randomly downloading new kindle books. The book itself is free, but I paid the extra $1.99 for the audio version to take along with me on my summer trip this past week. It was well worth it. The only negative thing I have to say about the audio version is that I wish the narrator would have stuck to her native accent more often. I liked the British/Irish/Scottish accents she was able to do, but I would have left the "American" accent alone completely. It sounded a bit "lisp-y". Other than that, I loved the narrator for this book.
I really enjoyed the feel of the world that Purdy created in this book. The imagery and descriptions were fantastic. There were places and details in the story that I thought were refreshing as far as the realm of the Fae was concerned and some of it's characters that Shade met along the way. It was face paced, each character was described well, and the journey had plenty of twists along the way.
Let's talk about the romance. Some people hate when there isn't an obvious romance immediately in a book. I am not one of those people. I actually really love the fact that Shade doesn't immediately swoon for every guy around, or that every guy is immediately infatuated with her. I enjoy the slow build up of relationships throughout books, with a quick taste of lust and desire here and there. It is PERFECT in this book. Now that I'm in book 2, I'm not as nauseated as I might have been if certain events had been introduced too early. I am secretly holding out for hope for a romantic relationship between Shade and one of the male characters, but I won't tell you which one. I really hope that the author does a completely 180 and has Shade fall for someone random, who we weren't expecting. That would be awesome and make a lot of readers mad, which would be fantastically evil.
That's the good ^^
Here's the bad...
I still really hate Shade. I can't stand a whiny heroine. I understand that a "seemingly normal" human, who finds herself in an extraordinary situation is scared, worried, and curious. I get that. What I don't enjoy is page after page of her being so terrified that she is constantly thinking of going home, or someone else is coming to her rescue, or the fact that she can't come up with some witty banter or something with her enemies to make her sound a little less of a puss and more of a bad-ass female lead. As much as I loved the idea of this book and understand that this book sets up Shade's character for more important roles later, it just really frustrated me that going into book 2 she hasn't changed in this regard at all (in fact, I think it's worse). It's okay for one of her weaknesses to be that she is scared, but at some point as the "savior" character that she is being set up to be in the future, she needs to man the hell up and start at least pretending to be brave. I really hope that she becomes a strong lead character, without too much more help from the males in the book.
Overall, I really liked this book and immediately bought the second one (audio as well). 4/5 stars because I'm not impressed with the main character...yet. I can't really say if the actual book was written well since I used the audio version, so I'll have to pass on criticizing the editing. This series has great potential to turn out to be an unexpectedly good read. We'll see if Purdy surprises me.
What a great story, I was hooked from the beginning. Shade, who is half fey, meets queen Zinara and is asked to go on a quest. Zinera explains they need the magic of the Santiran Fountains to have a chance against the armies of the Unseelie court. The magic of the Santiran Fountains can only be handled by a halfling. The journey will be dangerous and filled with peril. Several fey, all with different magical gifts, step forward volunteering to protect and guide Shade on her quest. Does she have the courage to go on this quest? She doesn't even like the outdoors. Will she discover she has magic? This book is a page turner. I kept wanting to know what will happen next!
This is a really nice quest story that for a change has a girl as the main character. There are some grammatical errors and it could use a better editor, but it's still a good read. It's written for teens, I believe, so that explains some of the attitudes Shade displays. She is a high school student, pulled into an incredible world and started on a fantastic journey to save the Seelie Fairie Court from war by retrieving special waters from a fountain that only a mixed blood person can approach--someone like Shade. She has a number of companions who help her on her journey and she learns many things and faces deadly enemies while seeking the magical waters. This is supposed to be the first book of a trilogy, but I noticed that there are at least four books in the cycle. I'm not complaining! I'm a little confused, but happy that the story goes on in more books. Some questions are left unanswered in this book, so perhaps the next book, "Ever Fire," will answer them. The pace is rather fast, with few breathers and the main characters are well developed. Shade starts out a typical high school girl, rather prone to curl up with a book rather than go hiking, but her situation gradually changes her to a physically stronger person, more aware of nature.
I think girls might like this because it is a quest book with a girl as the heroine. And although she doesn't want to be doing many of the actions she takes (and complains about it), she does what she has to. She gets the job done, like it or not. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series, "Ever Fire." I suspect a few of the situations left open will be finished up, and even if they aren't, I'm sure there will be another great adventure to follow.. Alexia seems to open up a portal that places you directly into the world she has built, so you are there beside the characters, feeling the heat of their sun or the misty coolness of their fog as they rouse an early camp to continue their journey.. This was a very good read and I strongly recommend it.
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