Kaisa from Lo's Morris Award winning Ash is back in this prequel novel. She accompanies Taisin, a gifted sage, and the King's son into the fairy world to speak to the fairy queen. Kaisa isn't sure what she's getting into, but she was needed, according to Taisin's visions. The adventure is long and rough and many people die. But eventually Kaisa's purpose becomes clear. This book was slow going for me--I was looking forward to starting it and then I was looking forward to finishing. I almost didn't finish, and that doesn't happen much in a YA novel. One plus is that one of the love relationships in the book is between two teenage girls--that doesn't happen much in mainstream YA fantasy.
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