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Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — The Falconer by Elizabeth May. One girl's nightmare is this girl's faery tale She's a stunner. Eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, has everything a girl could dream of: But Aileana only looks the part of an aristocratic young lady. She has a rare One girl's nightmare is this girl's faery tale She's a stunner.
Now Aileana is dedicated to slaying the fae before they take innocent lives. With her knack for inventing ingenious tools and weapons—from flying machines to detonators to lightning pistols—ruthless Aileana has one goal: Destroy the faery who destroyed her mother. The last in a line of female warriors born with a gift for hunting and killing the fae, Aileana is the sole hope of preventing a powerful faery population from massacring all of humanity. Suddenly, her quest is a lot more complicated. She still longs to avenge her mother's murder—but she'll have to save the world first.
The first volume of a trilogy from an exciting new voice in young adult fantasy, this electrifying thriller combines romance and action, steampunk technology and Scottish lore in a deliciously addictive read. Hardcover , US , pages. Published May 6th by Chronicle Books first published September 19th Edinburgh, Scotland , To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Falconer , please sign up. Is there any romance in this book? Ruby Yes, for sure. There's an interesting dynamic between Aileana and her Fae Mentor, Kirian, and she's interested and dancing around a relationship with …more Yes, for sure.
There's an interesting dynamic between Aileana and her Fae Mentor, Kirian, and she's interested and dancing around a relationship with her best friend's older brother, Gavin. Is this book clean? Emily There is a little bit of language - but not near as much as say, a John Green book or the Fifth Wave. The words used were mild but frequent. There is …more There is a little bit of language - but not near as much as say, a John Green book or the Fifth Wave. There is lots of tension but never goes further than kissing.
See all 5 questions about The Falconer…. Lists with This Book. The book is out in the UK! It's lurking in your bookshops! Check out the Gollancz Blog for chapter 2! I'm glad so many of you enjoyed my pre-release pictorial presentation on here, but I've made the decision to remove it for these reasons: ARCs have gone out into the world! Rea September 26 edit: Readers can now review the book.
They can tell you all about it, and you can decide from there if it sounds like something that'll suit your fancy without my author bias! It is so close to being published in the UK, so it'll be widely available to read, and I don't want my pictorial presentation coming before reviews which are meant for you readers! I'm sorry for removing it since I know so many of you liked it , but I feel like it's time.
As a parting gift, I'm keeping the baby seal. View all 67 comments. Feb 02, Samantha rated it really liked it Shelves: This has themes and tropes that remind me of Buffy, and I was hooked. Fast-paced, Buffy with fae, in s steampunk Scotland.
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Oh and there is an angsty romance with lots of banter. So now I'm off to buy the second one: View all 12 comments. This was not a bad book, but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who has read and loved the Faefever series unless you enjoy constantly being hit on the head with dueling comparisons. It doesn't help that Kiaran's last name is MacKay. I couldn't help but chuckle every time I saw it. The parallels are too obvious, and I felt that the setting, characters, and conflict are overwhelmingly shadowed by the superiority of the Fever series.
There's also Faefever lite. There's also a very forced attempt at romance, the inclusion of an eye-rolling love triangle, and a horrendous cliff hanger. One of the worst cliff hangers I've read this year. The plot itself is fine, the writing is good, it was fairly enjoyable if you don't overthink things, but knowing me, I overthink everything , hence my less-than-ideal rating for this book. The setting is , a steampunk version of Scotland; it is but a pale version of steampunk, but I'll go into that later. Lady Aileana Kameron is 18, the daughter of a Scottish Marquess; currently she is embroiled in scandal, the subject of whispers and suspicious glares at every social event she attends.
One year ago she was discovered hovering, bloodied and traumatized, over her mother's corpse. Her mother's heart was ripped out from her chest. The official story is that Lady Douglas died from an animal attack; Aileana knows better. Her mother was killed by fairies. From then on, she formed a strategic alliance with Kiaran, a fae, a sithichean daione sith , to get vengeance for her mother's killer. Neither knows the others' true purpose for hunting the fae, and their alliance is strictly businessuntil now.
To complicate things, her father has returned to town, demanding that Aileana must choose a husband, and she's got no shortage of suitorsshe's still a peer's daughter, his heiress, and with a plump dowry, after all. Conveniently, Aileana's former crush also returns to town from Oxford, possibly to rekindle the sparks of a romance And further still, there's danger lurking literally beneath Edinburgh.
Aileana's mother's was killed by a fae - Desire to wreak vengeance: Aileana's made it her mission in life to track down and kill the sith that killed her mother - A newfound ability to see fairies: Aileana stupidly goes out to hunt fairies on her own, fairies which are supposed to be invisible to the average human eye realize that she can see them. You might as well paint a target on Aileana's head - Girly-girl debutante transforms into deadly fae-killer: Kiaran, aka Jericho Barrons' more boring half-brother , who trains her, is mean to her, kicks her ass, and keeps secrets from her.
Kiaran is also seemingly V'lane's cousin's sister's son twice removed, because he has but a shadow of V'lane's sexual glamour. It's called being "faestruck. It was a good book, but it is just lacking in comparison. The Setting The setting was just not well done. I neither got a sense of Edinburgh itself or of the steampunk elements within it. Really, there was absolutely no purpose for the setting, and I really don't know why this book had to be steampunk. The steampunk-ish elements of this alternate-Edinburgh was limited to horseless carriages, cool decorations at balls and society events, ornithopters a Leonardo Da Vinci's version of a helicopter , machines that dispense hot beverages, and conveniently designed weaponry that will blast away an army of faeries with a push of a button.
The steampunk setting seems to be in place more to suit Aileana's hobby of tinkering, building machines, and designing custom tools than anything else. This book's setting, unlike the beautifully wrought dark atmosphere of the Faefever series, is but an afterthought. I did not find myself immersed at all, I did not lose myself in the surroundings. I did not get a feel of what made Edinburgh a place where humans and fairies coexist. There was no sense of place. The fae were very well written. There are many types, and they are very well described, some disgustingly rotten, others terrifyingly beautiful.
I just wished that we had a beautiful, dark setting fitting of them, instead of the half-hearted quasi-steampunk scene we were given. She didn't feel real to me, unlike MacKayla in Faefever and her amazing character development, Aileana just doesn't compare. Aileana was supposed to have turned from a gentle, happy society girl into a rage-filled, vengeance-minded cold-hearted fighter She was just too perfect, her transformation was told rather than shown. I understood her rage, her helplessness, her anger at witnessing her mother's death, but we were never clearly told how she has changed so much in that little time.
We are given Aileana 2. We see from the beginning of the book that she is an ass-kicking heroine, but it feels like that's all she is. Don't get me wrong, I loved the fact that she is unflinching in her quest for vengeance. She never, ever shies from killing an evil fae.
Unlike some books featuring so-called "female assassins" who are scared to draw blood which shall remain unnamed , Aileana is a determined killer. And I loved it, I loved seeing her kick, punch, stab, shoot. I loved seeing her as she slashes, disembowels, electrocutes. I just wished we saw more of her vulnerabilities as she became what she currently is. Her grief is also well-portrayed, to the point that at times, I said to myself: Yes, I am cold-hearted, but her extreme grief seems a little bit of an exaggeration.
Take a drink every time you read the phrase: You might get alcohol poisoning. Maybe take a sip of a beer instead. Generic YA love interest. Really, I made a comparison to Jericho and V'lane, but the truth is, there is no comparison. Kiaran has no personality than that of the standard mysterious, ice-cold, unfeeling bad boy with a secret heart and a soft spot in his soul that only the main character can see. The alliance between Aileana he calls her Kam and Kiaran seemed There was very little about their history together in that very short year, we are not given much at all about their past besides the fact that Kiaran trains Aileana to be a fighter, a killer.
Too little detail was given about their past to make their current relationship seem like anything but an alliance, and that is why their developing feelings seem so strange. I think Gavin says it best: The perfect love rival, with a twist. A really, really convenient and unbelievable twist. He is a student at Oxford, he is Aileana's beloved best friend's brother. He is an earl. Aileana has also been nursing aspirations of being the future Mrs. Aileana needs a husband, Gavin is oh-so-very eligible.
What's a girl to do? Why, love triangle, of course! Well-written enough to keep me interested. I wish there had been more written about Aileana's relationship with her father; they are so distant from each other, they have such a strained relationship, and it was painful to read at times. I felt very badly for Aileana for her father's continued disinterest in her, he is the very picture of an absentee father. Not uncommon, given the time, and given his status as nobility, who are expected to ignore their children, but I truly felt bad for Aileana for her father's neglect.
I wish their relationship had been developed further. I loved her best friend, Catherine. Catherine is beautiful, and unlike the trapfalls of having a beautiful best friend who exists to highlight the heroine's flaws, Catherine is absolutely lovely in character as well as appearance. I wish I had a best friend like her.
She is so utterly supportive, such a calming influence on Aileana: There is a little sidekick pixie named Derrick in this book. He exists to mend Aileana's clothes and to be an annoying little shit, it seems. I know Derrick is there for insertion of humor and lightness into an overall dark book, but personally, I wanted to snatch him out of the air and pluck out his wings.
He is a nuisance more often than not, and he truly grates on my nerves. And he has a habit of getting drunk on honey that would put Winnie the Pooh to shame. Now do you understand why I want to commit pixie-cide? I needed more background on them. Right off the bat, after a year of fighting together and little else, we see glimpses of Aileana's thoughts that signalled that she might fall for him.
Why all of a sudden? Aileana is not irrational, she knows that he's a killer, she knows that he's cold-hearted, for fuck's sakes, Kiaran kills his fellow fae without telling her why. They have never confided in one another as to why they're committed to their quest, their relationship has been strictly business-like, strictly student-mentor, so why does she start developing feelings now? Their conversations in the book are largely impersonal, more fraught with conflict than romance, there's not much bonding, so their feelings feel In the middle of all this mess? Is it really a good time to start a romance?
He turns to look at me, and our faces are a mere breath away. Everything around me fades and blurs and my gaze drops to his lips. I recoil from Kiaran, suddenly aware of what I almost did.
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My cheeks flush and my heart speeds up in embarrassment. I swear, I was tempted to kiss Kiaran, and in front of Derrick and Gavin, no less. What is wrong with me? I don't know what's wrong with you, either. Recommended to younger readers who want a fast-paced, action-packed fantasy, a brain-candy type of book.
Not recommended for fans of adult fantasy, or those seeking more complexity out of their reading experience. View all 55 comments. Nov 29, Katerina rated it it was amazing Shelves: They fall in love,they get married and they go for their honeymoon to Scotland ,the magical land of wild beauty and alluring lore. Everything is perfect,until the bloodthirsty fae find them. Hunted and on the run,they give birth to their love child.
A female warrior,born to kill the fae. Except Aileana's the last one of them,and she has a crumbling social life and reputation to fix,her mother's death to avenge,a honey-loving pixie that mends dresses in her closet,a friend who covers for her midnight strolls and a mysterious,insanely handsome instructor who happens to be a faery. Oh,and she also has to stop the Apocalypse. And find a husband. Time allows me to become more skillful at hiding how much I hurt inside.
Time makes me a great liar. Because when it comes to grief, we all like to pretend. Preferably one that features flying machines,balls,a hot collection of weapons and beautiful gowns. Thank you Elizabeth May ,you're the reason my brain still functions! I swallowed this book. The quick pace was captivating,the descriptions and landscapes breathtaking and the heroine really badass!!
I can't say I've read many steampunk books but The Falconer is a great example of how fascinating this genre is! Add some sass and romance ,world-changing events and a variety of emotions and voila! We battle, bleed and hunt together almost every night. He teaches me how to slaughter in the most effective, brutal ways possible. But I've never told Kiaran why I hunt, and he has never told me why he kills his own kind. This is our ritual, our dance. The only one that matters. Hunted by his own demons,secretive and bossy,he starts off as Kam's mentor but he eventually becomes something more.
I love me some slow-burning relationships!
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I must warn you though,there is a terrible cliffhanger that left me frustrated,angry and hurt. Care to join me in agony? View all 33 comments. May 10, C. Drews rated it really liked it Shelves: This was full of stabbing, bloody faeries, murderous girls and the occasional explosion I'm kicking myself for taking so long to read this?! It was a pure delight with fantastic characters and the kind of bloody stabbtastic plot I need. And holy heck so much sociopathic faerie feral wildness going down.
Talk about a frikkin' non-ending omg. I need book 2 like I need air and I don't have it s This was full of stabbing, bloody faeries, murderous girls and the occasional explosion I need book 2 like I need air and I don't have it so rip me I guess I will go impersonate a waterfall. I really loved Aileana! The badass faerie killer. I also admit I can't remember her name and literally had to go get it off the blurb. We all have our failings. Mine is never having a clue who anyone is. I loved how Aileana chaffed at her "proper" life as a lord's daughter and doing the balls and dresses etc etc Makes such a difference.
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And she was elegant and also badass and she was an engineer with all these murderous inventions to kill faeries. I mean, can she get any more awesome?! THIS is the kind of female heroine I love reading about!! She's super blood thirsty and also kind of sweet. I often find with fantasy we like skip over the "effects" and just focus on the battle or whatever. But this goes into the actual mental health side!! Aileana's mother was murdered in front of her when she was little and that absolutely messes with her ALL the time.
She has backflashes and PTSD metldowns and just Dark stabby faeries are also my favourite. I loved Kiaran lmao I looked up his name too SO much. He's very mysterious and also extremely powerful, but he and Aileana train to kill faeries. Aka Kairan is killing his own kind.
Anyway he was beautiful and deadly and snarky and I freaking love him. And I just really like how dangerous and wild all the faeries are. Everyone gets stabbed and bitten and poisoned. OK so there is a bit of a "love triangle" I liked that a Aileana was focused on important things and not wishy washing about who she wanted to kiss, ZERO of that, and b Gavin AND Kiaran were both fleshed out and super interesting.
IDK read the freaking book. I also loved the writing! It was really detailed and the added layer of describing all the smells made it really leap off the page. This was a fantastic surprise! Dark faeries and a steampunk Scottish setting with a badass, engineering, and emotional heroine I absolutely want to read more about.
It totally captured my imagination! Plus there's a scene where Kiaran says: She is my hero. Like a bloody street lamp. The closest he comes to betraying emotions is when he stabs something. View all 14 comments. Dec 01, Kat Kennedy rated it really liked it Shelves: I was hanging out with my good friend, Elizabeth May. We were riding unicorns along a deserted beach as our hair whipped in the wind, occasionally strands of her red and my brown locks blending together. We gazed lovingly together as we rode, smiling as joy filled our hearts in an almost mutual amount. When we pulled our unicorns to a break, having reached the peak of a cliff overlooking the sea, I took an opportunity to ask her a question.
I leaned in expectantly. In a flash she was on me, stabbing me several times in the abdomen before whipping behind me, yanking my hair back and slitting my throat. Because I was dead. That is until she shot it, and it died too. I really enjoyed The Falconer. However, I feel like some of the aspects Like a hovering hand that retrieves library books were a little far-fetched. There is a love interest.
But after a while of going: Then there may or may not have been kissage. And I may or may not have been like: The writing was great. But you know what the best part is? She got all flowery about the violence and massacre. I swear to god, for anyone who likes kicking ass, and protagonists who can do so — this is the perfect book for it.
There is just a surplus of things that need to be shot, stabbed or blown up and Aileana is so very ready to oblige! With delicious, delicious abandon. The plot is the really healthy dose of angst, murdering the living hell out of things, and romantic tension. Like, I finished it and flipped the closest table I could get to. This review, and others like it, also appear on my blog, Cuddlebuggery Book Blog. This ARC was provided to me by the author for reviewing purposes. This did not entice me to be any less annoyingly opinionated than I would otherwise be.
I am also friends with Elizabeth May. You have my permission to feel sorry for her. View all 17 comments. Feb 28, Hailey HaileyinBookland rated it it was ok Shelves: Didn't really care for this one at all. I wasn't captured by the story or anything so it was just kind of meh. View all 6 comments. Why bother with the real lethal deal when you can enjoy the so-healthy-you-might-get-bored-out-of-your-mind , diet version?! Let's cup the crap and get down to it shall we? I'm pretty sure you are all dying to find out just how much The Falconer differs from Fever.
She was born to kill fae. It's a gift she had all along and never knew about. And he is way above all that. He can see the Fae too! It will happen on Halloween when the lunar eclipse occurs on midwinter. She awakens the serial murderer in me with her serial I am's: I am so totally cool.
I am not broken or empty. I am so freakingly awesome. I am a genius. I am an inventor. I am so unbelievably remarkable. Just in case you were wondering. And the icing on the cake: View all 68 comments. Jan 04, Kiki rated it really liked it Shelves: I hate the Victorian era. I find it excruciatingly boring. Here's some taffeta and high tea and let's have masked balls and let me carry my parasol and oh, fie!
What do you make of these new inventions? I hate the Victorian era because it's so overdone. You know what else is overdone? You know what else I'm sick of? Before any of you get into a flap - particularly any of you who know me - let me preface that by saying that London is the shiz. Have you been to Lond I hate the Victorian era. Have you been to London? Oh my god, go. London is such a cool ass city, but that doesn't mean I want every single piece of British media to be set there.
I mean, my god, stop trying to make Victorian London happen. It's not going to happen. This book tore me two ways. Stop it, I beg of you. Just let me have a quick look. I think my absolute favourite thing about this book is that it's devoid of stereotypes. People say aye and they eat shortbread, but That shit gets done.
But this book does not fall back on woad and barbarism. This book says that high society existed and still exists in Scotland, because look at Rose Leslie, who lived in a fucking castle when she was a kid. Like, what the actual? I lived in a townhouse and then a caravan. And never mind that I secretly love books and movies about people being filthy and wearing armpit daggers in the Middle Ages I'm sorry, but I love the wars of independence.
They were such a perfect example of how money and fancy costumes can't buy nationalism. I liked Elizabeth May's Victorian era. I actually felt something in the face of the age old "I have to marry for duty, not love" tirade despite it usually treating my patience like mortar to pestle. All of this bravery and skill that Aileana has built up, and all the time she has spent hardening herself, will be thrown to the wind.
It'll all be for nothing. She'll go from battle-axe to subjugated Victorian wife. I think that's really fucking sad, and true of women, now and in antiquity, who've built lives for themselves only to have them pried from their hands for the sake of marriage. Look at Jill Duggar. That girl was training to be a midwife, and spent hours upon hours studying and taking house calls and even going abroad to help women who needed her, only to toss it all away because Duggar wives don't go to college or have careers. They literally aren't allowed to. I mean, jesus christ, the girl was pregnant seven minutes after she left the altar.
Calm the fuck down. Aileana surprised me in that her struggle felt real, and so did her grief. Man, her grief was epic. Don't knock Crimson suits you best because the girl is obviously suffering through some serious survivor's guilt and that does ugly things to a person. You might think that her constantly banging on about revenge and the hunt and her burning desire to taste the guts of her enemies is tiresome, but for me it rings true. This protagonist is fucked up and she knows it. She's going through some serious shit and she's a very unstable person at her core.
What I'm getting at is that it hit me in the feels, and that matters. It matters that I felt something. I was supposed to feel something. The author's love for the city of Edinburgh is obvious, and it shone through in such careful, adoring descriptions, which isn't to say that I feel that the setting was rendered to its full potential - it wasn't - but I got a sense of it and it was present. That said, I have strong expectations for setting. Setting should feel like a character in and of itself. The setting ought to have a pulse, and we ought to care about it, and it doesn't count if you care about it because you've already been there and seen how awesome Edinburgh is it's awesome.
Behind my hand, with eyes averted, I'll say that it's not as good as Glasgow. Glasgow rocks my world, daily. Glasgow is my fucking lover, with its rock-hard abs and ass that won't quit. But Edinburgh is goddamn beautiful. You need to feel it in your soul. And in your special place. Speaking of special places, I want to mash my face up against Kiaran's, because this dude is glorious, so tough and dark and scary, but that's not what'll make your panties damp. This review is all kinds of NSFW. What'll make your panties damp or your jeans a little tight is that he's such a fucking feminist.
Oh, Kiaran, I love it when you talk social justice to me. This dude treats Aileana with so much respect, and he's such a great example of a male character who's dark and broody and mysterious but isn't a sexist prick about it. He sees her sexuality and he prays to it; he listens to her when she explains how hard it is to be a woman in her world, and he humbles himself before the social struggle that she is facing. He spars with her, and beats her, and that's awesome because he's not coddling her or treating her like she's incapable. He trusts her and believes in her.
I think that is beautiful, and it's refreshing, and this is me enjoying a Victorian era novel. Enjoy it while it lasts. That piquant tang of my agreement will be gone as quickly as it came. The writing's smooth, and while it could've had a little more flair, it's nothing to sniff at.
It's what was needed. Even if I nearly broke my neck with all of that Gaelic. Sorry I'm not from Oban, okay? Some good advice I can give you is that sgian-dubh is pronounced "skeen-duu", and that sith is "shee" which means that baobhan sith is "bah-van shee". Now say that three times fast. Told you that a shit-ton of faerie lore comes courtesy of your good friend Alba.
On a side note, why are villains always called Sorcha? Wow, this just got super personal. My beef with this book both is and isn't the author's fault.
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What isn't the author's fault is the steampunk, which I absolutely hate. Steampunk can eat my toenails. I'm not even that sure what it is about it that pisses me off; it just does. But it's annoying because I love, love , that Aileana is an engineer and please, girls, be engineers. Tell your daughters that they can fix cars and built rocket ships! Tell them about the women who built warplanes in the thirties and forties! Tell them that it was a woman who created the coding that allowed modern computers to exist!
Tell them these things! Just keep your steampunk away from me! Like I said, it's not the author's fault that I hate steampunk, thus all of those gears and the ornithoptor and this bag of vomit did not affect my rating. What did knock the star off is that this book isn't fucking finished. I kept looking for more pages at the end, because what the actual fuck? That's not an ending. That is not how you finish a novel. Part of me doesn't even believe that the author wanted to finish this book this way, because the rest of this novel was solid and logical and consistent.
How was it all supposed to end? No author anywhere, ever, at any point in time, has ever written an ending like that in a word document, then hit save and shut their laptop down, with a smiling sigh of, "There. I'm definitely picking up the next book, but only because of that cliffhanger. And my anger about the cliffhanger is not a cute Tumblr anger like "stop torturing us because we love these characters so much and miss them and how dare you end this book! Now I'm all hot and bothered and it's bedtime. I'm taking my leave of all of you. Blast you all, ninnies and scallywags! Let's never do this again.
View all 18 comments. Mar 25, Pouting Always rated it really liked it. Aileana is a upper class Scottish girl living in , recently back out on the social scene a year after her mother's death. Though before she fit into it all seamlessly, after watching a faery murder her mother she has become changed.
She has spent the past year training with another one of the fae, Kiaran, to kill the fae. I think with books a lot of times there's this trade off between the writing and the story telling and honestly I would much rather have good story telling than good writin Aileana is a upper class Scottish girl living in , recently back out on the social scene a year after her mother's death. I think with books a lot of times there's this trade off between the writing and the story telling and honestly I would much rather have good story telling than good writing.
When I started reading the book I was a little annoyed at how immature the writing seemed, but it's ya so it's not really meant for someone as old as I am so I kept reading and I'm really glad I did. After about five pages I started to really get into the story. It was so good, the way it all flows and builds up to that final scene at the end was excellent. I also really liked all the characters, I can't think of one person who got on my nerves through out the book. Aileana is a sweetheart and I love Derrick. The steampunk thing was pretty cool too, I haven't read a lot of things incorporating that but I enjoyed it here and wouldn't mind reading more of it in the future.
I can understand people may not have enjoyed it because it parallels others series they've read or because it seems like a typical YA book but I think when reading YA people should really be more realistic about their expectations. Things like this story have been done but I think this is a terrific execution of the story and that is worthwhile to read. View all 16 comments. Feb 15, Lia a paper pigeon rated it really liked it Shelves: Sometimes the memories we cling hardest to, are the ones that hurt us the most.
Before you read this review, I must warn you that it might contain spoilers, or better, things or facts that some people might consider so. Since I don't know you all's take on what's a spoiler and what's not, I'll try to keep it as vague as possible and tag when I have to. The Falconer is my second attempt at reading something about Faes and their magical and intricated world and, not gonna lie, I approached the su Sometimes the memories we cling hardest to, are the ones that hurt us the most.
The Falconer is my second attempt at reading something about Faes and their magical and intricated world and, not gonna lie, I approached the subject mainly thanks to my dear friend Virginia and her utter obsession over everything faerie-ish. Thank you, Gin, now I'm obsessed too!
The Falconer is a compelling story about vengeance, self-knowledge and love, all sprinkled with Scottish humor and slang. Blinded by the will to avenge her, she starts training with Kieran MacKay, who fights his own kind and will teach her everything about Faes and even something about herself.
I kind of live for vengeance storylines. I have read a rather long list of books where blood thirst and revenge are the main point of the story, the thing that drives the characters through the pages, and I have to say it, The Falconer -with its exquisite writing and interesting descriptions- just got on top of that list without many compliments.
Although it being a bit repetitive at times, I think the writing is incredibly nice, almost never boring only a tad bit at the start, but that's it and amazingly colorful, especially if you consider the presence of all those Gaelic terms and phrases, that make everything ten times more authentic than the setting already suggests it is.
Another thing that makes this book a worthy read, are the fact that the dialogues are totally on point. The charaters talk and act properly and in tune with the period they live in I'm looking at you and your various "holy shit"s, Royal Bastards. If I had to be completely picky and you can bet your sweet bippies I'm not going to refrain myself , I found the steampunk factor to be a bit weak in the first pages, but it definitely got better as the chapters went on.
Amazing action scenes, too. I literally could feel the adrenaline rush whenever my fierce red-haired heroine had to fight against one of those flipping monsters. Also, can we talk about those footnotes? In short, this book is almost perfect on paper. The strongest point of the entire novel, though, remain the characters, Aileana first and foremost. I apparently have developed a thing for badass red-haired swordswomen, lately. Nothing new if you ask my closest friends, but let me tell you why this time is different.
An actual badass with her eyes focused on the prize and no time for anything frilly and distracting. She's so passionate, smart, strong-willed, stubborn and sarcastic nice alliteration, self. Her huge heart and all the scars -both physical and emotive- she's endured make her nothing but one of the best main character I've read of in a very long time. I usually don't like books in first-person pov, but I liked that The Falconer was narrated through Aileana's words, because it gave me an amazing insight of her own thoughts and motivations. I love her relationship with Catherine sweet and loyal Catherine , Derrick a pixie who gets drunk on honey and stitches clothes?
Heck, yes, I want to adopt one and Gavin adorable and probably way too kind for his own good. How Tech Is Changing Childhood. Want personalized picks that fit your family? Set preferences to see our top age-appropriate picks for your kids. Dark, enchanting, violent tale of faery-killing teen girl. Elizabeth May Fantasy Sign in or join to save for later. Parents say No reviews yet Add your rating.
Based on 2 reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. Get it now on Searching for streaming and purchasing options A lot or a little? The parents' guide to what's in this book. Introduces readers to Scottish folklore and the Gaelic language. Trust must be earned -- and forgiveness is far better than revenge.
The main character proves to be selfless as she risks her own life to save others. Continue reading Show less. Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. User Reviews Parents say Kids say. There aren't any reviews yet. Be the first to review this title. Teen, 14 years old Written by KingsK. It follows a girl, Lady Aileana Kameron, who's life was ripped away after the brutal murder of her mother, kil I had to put this book down it was so boring.
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