Book #20

Shadowspell by Jenna Black
295 pages
Popular fiction
To understand this book you have to know what happened in the first one, Glimmerglass. Dana Hathaways alcoholic mother shows up at her her voice recital drunk, again, and she decides that she's had enough. So she decides to go find her mysterious dad in Avalon; the only place on Earth where the regular world and the captivating world of Faerie intersect. But as soon as she gets there everything goes wrong. It turns out she is a Faeriewalker, someone who can travel between both worlds and bring magic to our world and technology to Faerie, btw they are really rare. Then she gets tangled up with politics and discovers someone is trying to kill her. Everyone wants something from her and she doesn't know who can be trusted or where she fits in or if her world will ever be normal again. On top of all that there is a hottie fae guy named Ethan who is well lets just say he's perfect. So now in the second one she is spending most of her time in a bunker-like safe house and is always being watched by her bodyguard. And more bad news the evil Erlking and his murderous minions called the Wild Hunt are now in Avalon. The Erlking has been a nightmare in the Faerire realm for as long as anyone can remember with his homicidal tendencies and immortal powers. The Erlking can't just hunt willy nilly though, he has a mysterious spell put on him by the Faerie Queens so he can only hunt who they tell him to. Which is bad news for Dana because the Queens want her and her Faeriewalker powers dead and gone. The Erlking has his sights set on Dana but does he want to kill her or does he have something darker in mind? You'll just have to read them to find out. I read Glimmerglass a while ago and have been waiting so long for Shadowspell to come out so I might be a little foggy about some of the details in the first one but you get the gist of it.