Elle

I started reading this book a few months ago, but my mind wasn't in the correct section for high-political fantasy. So I left it to finish at a later date, and here I am with the finished first book of The Folk of the Air series. It took me a bit to gather a care for Jude, though slow, one eventually did build, and now, I can't wait to read the rest of the series.

This book is fun to read for the first part of the book, when you are just learning about the characters and how they interact with each other, however they really stay the same spoiled and obsessed as they were in the beginning. During the second part of the book really just drones on for me. It wasn't really interesting for me, so it was a struggle to get through the second half. The prose is formal, for this time period, but not too formal that it is too hard to understand what is going on. Plus, I like the occasional challenge of figuring out what a certain phrase or word means through the context of the story. Overall, I can understand why it is part of the classics, and in some areas, part of the curriculum.

I absolutely love this book! You get to follow along with four amazing women as they work together to find who is behind a mysterious death of a man, our main protagonist Nora meets in the very beginning of the book. The journey the four take is paced at a spectacular pace, where the events don't feel to drawn out but not overwhelmingly close together. The hints to the answer are hidden throughout the whole book enough to keep the reader's brain active and thinking, while not to obvious to the ending. This book is a nice quick read and is perfect for a nice evening with a cup of tea and a notebook to help keep track, if you like to follow along.

Nora is a representative of the people who are not “society's” opinion of attractive people with a burn scar that goes from her face down her side. I think the author handled this situation with grace and awareness of the affects the injury would have on a person. Although, I do not know the first-hand experience of having a visible scar, or the societal experiences that come with such an injury.

All in all, I would definitely recommend this to my friends, family, and other readers who like a good mystery.