An Enchantment of Ravens

What a sweet version of insta-love. Now, I know most people aren't huge fans of insta-love. It's not super realistic, but the way its done in An Enchantment of Ravens actually works. There's a sweet relationship between a human and a faerie lord. It all starts when Isobel, a master painter, is commissioned by the Autumn Prince, Rook, to do a portrait for him. Everything builds from there. Love and peril, questions about faeries, everything.

There's some really neat world-building done in this novel – the setting is Whimsy, which seems to be separate from our world somehow, and the faerielands. Whimsy is stuck permanently in summer. It seems humans primarily live here, but faeries come and go. Magic is mysteriously done, not laid out in any particular way. But it's faerie magic, and faerie magic always comes with a price. Wishes and requests must be said precisely to be sure there is no way the request can be twisted.

Unfortunately, An Enchantment of Ravens is rather short. I was so engrossed in the world and the relationship between the main two characters that when the end came I wanted more. More between Isobel and Rook, more about the faeries and what's going to happen with the titles and land involved.

Overall, though, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Four stars, probably leaning towards four and a half.