The Faerie Path

{{Short description|2007 fantasy novel by Frewin Jones}} {{infobox book |  | name = The Faerie Path | image = The Faerie Path.jpg | author = Frewin Jones | country = United Kingdom | language = English | genre = Young adult<br>Fantasy | publisher = Eos/HarperCollins | release_date = February 6, 2007 | media_type = Print (hardcover and paperback) | pages = 320 | followed_by = The Lost Queen | isbn = 978-0-06-087102-4 | congress= PZ7.J71 Fae 2007 | oclc= 70659892 }}

'''''The Faerie Path''''' is the first novel in a six-book series by the British author Frewin Jones. The story follows Anita Palmer, a teenager from two different parallel universes, and her struggle to maintain both lives.<ref name="Kallio">{{cite book|last=Kallio|first=Jamie|title=Read On: Speculative Fiction for Teens: Reading Lists for Every Taste|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jcaTg6fJTfIC&pg=PA30|year=2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781598846539|pages=30–31}}</ref>

==Plot== On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Anita has an accident and ends up in hospital with her boyfriend Evan. To brighten her mood, at midnight her parents give her one of her presents, one sent to her by mail with no return address: it is a beautiful book, but the pages are blank.

Anita explores the book, which suddenly has a story written inside. It tells about a lost princess, the seventh of seven daughters, who has become trapped in the Mortal World on her sixteenth birthday, the night before she was to marry Lord Gabriel Drake. Suddenly Anita grows wings and she flies out of the window, above London. Suddenly, her wings wither away and she falls. Found in the hospital bathroom by a nurse, she is returned to her bed, still worried about Evan not waking. The nurse brings Anita a gift addressed to her, from Evan's belongings. The gift is a necklace that she quickly puts around her neck. She fell asleep, and when she woke up, Evan is gone. A ghostly image appears to Anita, the image of Gabriel Drake, calling her to follow him. Anita followed Lord Drake out onto a balcony where he urges her to focus strongly on him so that she can reach him. Anita tries her hardest to focus on him and suddenly their hands meet in the air. Lord Drake pulls Anita from the Mortal realm presents her to her father: as it turns out, Anita is also Tania, the seventh child of Oberon and Titania, king and queen of fairyland.<ref>{{cite book|last=Telep|first=Trisha|title=Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HyPBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT321|year=2011|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9781849019286|pages=321–22}}</ref>

==Reception== ''The Faerie Path'' was viewed as a "floral Faerie tale may unspool at a measured pace, but girls will likely take to Anita. ... A well-executed reference to Romeo and Juliet gives the finale a bit more punch than most fantasy romances" and a "well-paced style that will communicate with today’s readers."<ref name=pubweek>{{cite news|newspaper=Publishers Weekly|title=The Faerie Path|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-087102-4|date=January 29, 2007|access-date=September 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/frewin-jones/the-faerie-path/|title=The Faerie Path|newspaper=Kirkus Reviews|access-date=September 27, 2012|date=December 15, 2006}}</ref> It was rated as a book with good Christian values by Squeaky Clean Reviews who also found the "revelation of the villains horribly predictable."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.squeakycleanreviews.com/review.cfm?review_id=456|title=The Faerie Path|author=Kristi Simonson|publisher=Squeaky Clean Reviews|access-date=September 27, 2012}}</ref> It was recommended for readers who enjoy romance and adventure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.herald-mail.com/2007-08-14/news/25091416_1_faerie-path-book-review-fairy-world|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102185736/http://articles.herald-mail.com/2007-08-14/news/25091416_1_faerie-path-book-review-fairy-world|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2013|title=Book review: ''The Faerie Path''|first=Darcy|last=Shull|newspaper=The Herald-Maill|date=August 14, 2007|access-date=September 27, 2012}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.allanfrewinjones.com|Allan Frewin Jones official website}}

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