A Fae Tale

This story continues the authors track record of incredibly fun characters, and then wraps that around a simple and sweet story of two childhood friends, that had me smiling from start to finish. A mood-lifter that was very welcome, and easily became my favorite by Genevieve.

At the age of 6 Dovana runs off and gets lost in the Lithuanian woods by her house. There she encounters 3 laumes, including Roze, a laume of her own age. (Caveat - apparently a laume is a weird forest dwelling mythical entity. Who knew!) Roze and the other laumes return Dovana safely to her parents. Afterwards, the two develop a lifelong friendship where they communicate through letters on the anniversary of Dovana’s temporary disappearance, BUT they never actually meetup again in person. After 15 years of never talking face to face, Dovana grows tired of the status quo and goes in search of Roze, only to find herself in trouble at the hands of another fiend. Roze jumps in and saves the day, later to reveal the reason for her elusiveness is because she and Donanva are destined to get married. Because of this, Roze has been avoiding Dovana and this fate as she sees it as an affront against her own family and kind. Alas, they can’t avoid each other any longer and move forward gaining the acceptance of each other’s families and friends.

Ok, so this book was really bizarre, but that’s not to be negative. On the contrary, I really liked it. The references to Eastern European cultural folklore were crazy, and it made me jealous of my boring, white bread upbringing. Or maybe I’m just the only one that had to google every strange mythical reference. Some of the dialogue is convoluted and confusing, but the book was just outright funny. I also really liked the cross over from normal life to the mystical. I’m new to this genre so forgive me if that is common.