Take the simple formula boy
meets girl, boy loves girl, boy loses girl.
Repeat it for a few hundred years, and add in a faerie curse, shifting allegiances, and a Winter Queen bent on killing her son.
This is the life of Keenan, the
Summer King whose powers have been bound. To break the curse, he must find his
Summer Queen. The catch? She has to risk her life for him, either taking on
Winter’s Chill and living alone filled with cold, or becoming a Summer Girl and
spending the rest of her life with the Summer Court.
Keenan thinks he’s finally found
his Summer Queen. The problem is, she doesn’t love him, and she doesn’t want to
become part of the fairy world. Meanwhile, Keenan is torn between his true love
and his duty, and the Winter is getting longer and longer.
This book is set apart from
other typical romance novels because the descriptions of the faerie world are
so vivid. They can be brutal, capricious, or sensitive, but they’re all full of
life. The romance isn’t the standard love triangle that has infected most teen
books these days; it’s full of sacrifice and yearning. The story is very
intricate, hurtling along with plenty of twists and turns. By the time you
reach the ending you’ll want to read it again.
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