Title:  The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door  
Author:  H. G. Parry        
Genre:  Fantasy       
Rating:  4 out of 5

All they needed to break the world was a door, and someone to open it.

Camford, 1920. Gilded and glittering, England’s secret magical academy is no place for Clover, a commoner with neither connections nor magical blood. She tells herself she has fought her way there only to find a cure for her brother Matthew, one of the few survivors of a faerie attack on the battlefields of WWI which left the doors to faerie country sealed, the study of its magic banned, and its victims cursed.

But when Clover catches the eye of golden boy Alden Lennox-Fontaine and his friends, doors that were previously closed to her are flung wide open, and she soon finds herself enmeshed in the seductive world of the country’s magical aristocrats. The summer she spends in Alden’s orbit leaves a fateful mark: months of joyous friendship and mutual study come crashing down when experiments go awry, and old secrets are unearthed.

Years later, when the faerie seals break, Clover knows it’s because of what they did. And she knows that she must seek the help of people she once called friends—and now doesn’t quite know what to call—if there’s any hope of saving the world as they know it.

I loved this setting and world and found it fascinating. The whole magic school premise has been overdone, but this story focuses on the characters and their friendship, not the minutiae of what’s happening in the classroom, and that sets it apart. I loved that friendship was the center of this book, without getting distracted by romance and flirtation. I was drawn into the story from the beginning and found it hard to put it down when I had to go do something else.

H. G. Parry lives in New Zealand. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door is her newest novel.

(Galley courtesy of Redhook Books in exchange for an honest review.)

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break the world was a door, and someone to open it. Camford, 1920. Gilded
and glittering, England’s secret magical academy is no place for Clover, a
commoner with neither connections nor magical blood. She tells herself she has
fought her way there only to find a cure for her brother Matthew, one of the few
survivors of a faerie attack on the battlefields of WWI which left the doors to
faerie country sealed, the study of its magic banned, and its victims cursed. But when Clover catches
the eye of golden boy Alden Lennox-Fontaine and his friends, doors that were
previously closed to her are flung wide open, and she soon finds herself
enmeshed in the seductive world of the country’s magical aristocrats. The
summer she spends in Alden’s orbit leaves a fateful mark: months of joyous
friendship and mutual study come crashing down when experiments go awry, and
old secrets are unearthed. Years later, when the
faerie seals break, Clover knows it’s because of what they did. And she knows
that she must seek the help of people she once called friends—and now doesn’t
quite know what to call—if there’s any hope of saving the world as they know
it. I loved this setting
and world and found it fascinating. The whole magic school premise has been
overdone, but this story focuses on the characters and their friendship, not
the minutiae of what’s happening in the classroom, and that sets it apart. I
loved that friendship was the center of this book, without getting distracted
by romance and flirtation. I was drawn into the story from the beginning and
found it hard to put it down when I had to go do something else. H. G. Parry lives in
New Zealand. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door is her newest novel. (Galley courtesy of Redhook
Books in exchange for an honest review.) Book Review:   The
Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, by H. G. Parry