The Faerie Path (Faerie Path Series #1) Book

Swept away into a court of magic and beauty, she discovers she is Tania, the lost princess of Faerie. Since Tania's mysterious disappearance five hundred years before, Faerie has been sunk in darkness and gloom. With her return, Faerie comes alive again as a land of winged children, glittering balls, and fantastic delights. But Tania can't forget Anita's world, or the boy she loved there.

Torn between two loves and between two worlds, Tania slowly remembers why she disappeared, and realizes that she is the only one who can stop a sinister plan that threatens the entire world of Faerie.

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London teen Anita Palmer, on the brink of her 16th birthday, seems as if she has it all: loving parents, the lead in the school production of Romeo and Juliet, and the cute and mysterious new boy, Evan Thomas, for a boyfriend. But things turn out very differently when Anita crosses the border between the Mortal World and the Faerie World. There she learns that she is the long-lost Princess Tania, seventh and youngest daughter of Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of Faerie. She is expected to pick up her life where she left off when she vanished—500 years previously. Oberon has kept the land in a perpetual twilight that prevented time from passing. As beautiful and wonderful as Faerie is, Anita—now Tania—is still worried about the parents who raised her in the Mortal World. She also misses her life there, and she's not completely prepared to give it up. She learns that she has a talent for moving between the Worlds, and as she gains control of her power, she suspects that someone might be plotting to exploit her talent, and not in a good way. Although the beginning is a bit slow, the pace picks up once Anita enters Faerie. The contrast between her modern demeanor and speech and the more archaic ones of Faerie is amusing and not overdone; the reader gets the impression that she will never quite get the knack of being a Faerie Princess. If the plot and characters are at time transparent—readers will figure out who the bad guys are—Jones introduces some original fresh ideas, such as the dreaded Amber Prison, which freezes a person in an amber ball indefinitely, able to see everything around him but not to sleep. He also ties up the obvious question ofhow Tania survived 500 years in the Mortal World and lays the groundwork for a sequel, one which no doubt will be eagerly anticipated.