Bones Of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner is a dark apocalyptic fairy tale. From the beginning you can see that this will not be your typical fairy tale. Plants kill people and are savage, and fifteen year old Liza and her village are ruled by her savage father, who rules that any trace of magic, even in people, must be immeadeatly destroyed. We quickly see that this rule is enforced often, even when Liza's father leaves Liza's baby sister out in the wild to die. After this, Liza's mother leaves the village. The story picks up from here, and has many twists. None alter the story in a huge way, but bring out the details more freshly. I would've liked to see more character detail, but this kind of dark fantasy is something I love, and I wish there was more of it. The setting of an apocalyptic fantasy world is something origonal, yet reminiscint of novels such as Garth Nix's Sabriel. I throughly enjoyed the realistic setting, the world, and the theme of continuing a war against all reason. However, the character development could've used work, and the novel could've been a lot more detailed about the backstory of the world it was set in. This was very short, so it shouldn't take you very long. On the cons side, you wont feel quite satisfied when you put it down. This is Simner's fifth novel, but the first four were children's books, and this is her first mature, detailed work. So hopefully we will have more of the same.
FINAL VERDICT: Great novel, but hopefully other books will come out a little more fully formed. 4/5 bookmarks.
Signed, Abyss
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