Review by Charlyt -- Rowan Wood Legends

[Charlyn Tuzon]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Rowan Wood Legends" by Olivia Wildenstein.]

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4 out of 4 stars

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Catori Price is a girl from Rowan who is a part hunter and part faerie. Conflicted by her true nature, as the two clans are at war with each other, there are only a handful of people she could trust, especially after someone whom she thought of as a friend stole her book, The Wytchen Tree. This book contains secrets, unknown even to Cat, and now the faeries have it in their possession even though they cannot read it. Cat tries to find a way to get her book back as she struggles to be in the middle of the two sides and people dying around her. What she realizes, however, is that one side seems to weigh more for her than the other.

Rowan Wood Legends is the second book of The Lost Clan Series written by Olivia Wildenstein. It is a fantasy series set in the modern world wherein century-old hunters have risen from their graves, and faeries are not the fluttering Tinker Bell type but are powerful beings that look like us. It has romance mixed with it which makes the story more interesting and complicated at the same time.

This book was the first that I have read from the series so I had to familiarize myself with the story and the characters for a few chapters before finally settling in comfortably. Luckily, the author provides a cheat sheet wherein all the previous characters were briefly described, and it also contained a short dictionary for the hunter and faerie languages. But once I got acquainted with the story, I found myself magnetized to it. Every end of the chapter got me curious to find out what will happen next, and I found it hard to put the book down.

I liked that while there was romance involved, the theme of fantasy and its plot regarding the conflict between the hunters and faeries were still the primary topic of the book. The characters were well developed and diverse, and their different personalities were shown whenever they speak. I actually enjoyed the bickering between Catori and Ace. The narrative was also very descriptive and specific while still being fluid and even humorous. It even had me laughing a couple of times. What caught my attention was the author’s tendency to describe through the sense of smell which I was also fond of.

Being the second book of the series, it felt like it only served as a bridge between book one and book three. I thought that there was probably more important action that happened in the first book. But that doesn’t mean that this one wasn’t as significant. This book reveals a lot of critical information and revelations regarding the series, and danger and pain were never far.

I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. I was very pleased with it that it makes me want to read the first book and the rest of the series because I want to know more about the story and its characters. The book also seemed to be professionally edited as I didn’t find any errors in it. Because of some mature content and a few swear words, I don’t think this book is for young adults, but I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes fantasy mixed with romance.

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