As some of you might know, Autumn is a magical season for me. Margaret Rogerson’s prose of faerie lore is as wistful and rich as the season of autumn.

Written in first-person narrative, the story wraps you in a decor of words submerged in vivid and embellishing descriptions. LINKS: Goodrea ds | Amaz on | Barnes & N oble | The Book Depo sitoryĪn Enchantment of Ravens is one of the most beautiful and whimsical debuts I have read in 2017. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel. Isobel has a choice: she can sacrifice her art for a future, or arm herself with paint and canvas against the ancient power of the fairy courts.

There’s only one way to save both their lives, Isobel must drink from the Green Well, whose water will transform her into a fair one-at the cost of her Craft, for immortality is as stagnant as it is timeless. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love, violating the fair folks’ ruthless Good Law. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes – a weakness that could cost him his life.įurious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime.

But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized among them. When it doesn’t turn out as he’d hoped, Rook takes Isobel into his magical realm to go before the court to speak on her crime, but become thrust into the enchanting and dangerous land of the Fair Folk and meet many…interesting characters.Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. One day, the Fae prince of the Autumn court arrives on her doorstep, Prince Rook, and is next in line for another masterpiece. The Fae-to have her commission portraits of them in exchange for magical deals. She’s so talented, she’s gathered the attention of the Fair Folk-i.e. The story is about a girl named Isobel, a young human who’s an amazing painter. An Enchantment of Ravens is a brief, but wonderfully told story that’s a debut YA Fantasy novel written by Margaret Rogerson.

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