Synopsis: From the moment Alina touches London’s hottest fae superstar, breaking one of the laws founded to protect all of her kind, her fate – and the fae – close in.

Below ground, the fae High Queen plots to claim the city as her own and places her pawns, ready for the battle to come. A battle she cannot lose, but for one small problem – Alina. There are four ancient keepers powerful enough to keep the queen in her prison. Three are dead. One remains … And to fight back, Alina risks sacrificing everything she has come to love.

Review: As soon as I saw the cover of the novel, I knew I had to read it. I think we can only fall in love with this sublime illustration. But that’s not all because, I admit that I have a soft spot for anything that is related to the faes, then the mixture could only please me. And yet …

Before starting reading it, I had the opportunity to read two very mixed reviews and I confess that it made me a little anxious. However, starting the story myself, I was quickly swept away by the whole thing. Yes, the author depicts a young woman, Alina, who finds herself in a story completely beyond her. Indeed, her life will completely change when she rescues Reign one day, a fae that everyone seems to hunt. Alas, appearances are very deceiving and our heroine will quickly understand that something is wrong and that starts with her own existence. She will have to try to understand a world she does not know about and where everything seems scary.

As I said I enjoyed reading the story at first … unfortunately, this feeling did not really remain thereafter. While all the new events are interesting, the middle of the story arrived, and I found that the story began to drag long and finally I had a little trouble staying interested in the characters and the events. I think that I expected a little more, and in the end I found it hard not to put the book down and aside. Yet the world is interesting, the direction that the story takes too, but something was missing for more. The romance did not really convince me and finally neither the characters.

However, as I said the ideas are very nice and there are a few different myths about the faes that I really loved to discover. This novel was therefore perhaps not for me, but I have no doubt that it will please to others.

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40 thoughts on “City of Fae by Pippa DaCosta

  1. Paula M @ Her Book Thoughts

    Guess you’re part of my team then 🙁 I actually the first part too but then it slowly turned awful. I hope your next read is much better than this!

    1. Melliane

      yes finally I think it was the same thing.

  2. blodeuedd

    And now I am not convinced the book is for me, nope

    1. Melliane

      sorry about that

  3. Maja (The Nocturnal Library)

    Oh, first of all, Jenny’s cover is just gorgeous. I stared at it for about a minute. But Sloomsbury Spark disappointed me several times lately, and it’s best that I just skip this one entirely. It’s sad that you lost interest halfway through, I hate it when that happens.

    1. Melliane

      Yes I just love it! So awesome! Sorry to hear that.

  4. Kirsty-Marie

    Exactly, and I mean, I know we’re not supposed to judge a book by it’s cover or anything, buuuuut, the cover is what we see first. Yay to a great start…but nay to everything else. Sorry it dragged, and felt drawn out. And that there felt like something was missing (and romance is usually hit or miss for me- but sounds like this was a miss). 🙁

    1. Melliane

      right? I’m so superfitial lol.

  5. Kim @ BookSwoon

    I love this cover – Jenny’s work is so gorgeous! It sounds like the book has a lot of potential and the various Fae myths sound intriguing. I’m sorry the ending was not your favorite, Melliane.

    1. Melliane

      it’s more than the ending but the ideas are good.

  6. kindlemom1

    I absolutely adore this cover and I fully admit, I would have bought it because of it. So sorry there wasn’t more to this than that beautiful cover.

    1. Melliane

      right? So beautiful!

  7. Brandi Breathes Books

    Aw sorry to hear that it ended up dragging for you

  8. kimbacaffeinate

    The first thing I thought was OMG that cover is gorgeous. What a shame it fell apart in the middle. I hope your next read is stellar. So sorry Melliane.

    1. Melliane

      thanks lady

  9. Ramona

    Too bad about Jenny’s gorgeous cover! Man, I had such high hopes for this one… I love the fae and sometimes buy books automatically if I find the word in the title or blurb. Glad I read your review, otherwise I would’ve probably bought this one too!

    1. Melliane

      me too… maybe it’s more for you than for me.

  10. Suzi Q, The Book Dame

    I was attracted to this story for the cover and then the title promises fae, which had me sitting up, but I will take a pass. While it sounds like it could have been promising, there are too many books on my TBR to be bothered with a book that is less than lukewarm.

    1. Melliane

      I can understand that

  11. Heidi

    Jenny’s cover is outstanding. So sad though to hear that this one was a flop. I was hoping for something different and awesome in NA. I think I will pass.

    1. Melliane

      me too…

  12. Lily

    THAT COVER. IT IS GORGEAUS. Ahhh it sucks when a book has a gorgeous cover, starts off great and that goes downhill from there. I’m sorry this one didn’t work for you in the end Melliane ;(

    1. Melliane

      thank you

  13. Melissa (Books and Things)

    I hate when that happens. I would also pick this one for the cover and that it is about the fae. Hopefully the next book you read will be better.

    1. Melliane

      I hope so too. I’ll wait for reviews if there is a sequel

  14. Keionda@Keionda Hearts Books

    Well I guess sometimes covers can be deceiving. It’s a shame you didn’t care for it that much. I’ve heard mixed reviews about it as well but that cover is simply gorgeous!!♡ I think I may still give it a try though and see what other people have to say about it. So I’ll let you know what I think about it.:)

    1. Melliane

      Yes, curious to see what you’ll think of it!

  15. Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum

    Oh no, it’s always such a disappointment when a book you’re highly anticipating and very excited about ends up being a 2-star. I don’t think this would have been for me anyway, but thanks for the review! I notice in the lower left hand corner is a publisher logo, what is Bloomsbury Spark? I haven’t heard of it before now, maybe a new imprint of theirs?

    1. Melliane

      yes Bloomsbury Spark, it’s UK.

  16. Joy (Joyousreads)

    Oh that’s really unfortunate. This wasn’t in my radar because I’m not one to read fae books. Oh well. I hope your next pick would be better!

    1. Melliane

      thanks

  17. ShootingStarsMag

    Sorry this one was a bit of a let down. It seems so many pretty covers can be fooling!

    1. Melliane

      yes difficult…

  18. Lola @ Hit or Miss Books

    Meh, this must be the tenth negative review I see for this book. Be assured that I will not lose my time with it 😛 Although, the cover is gorgeous bouhoouuhou

    1. Melliane

      Ah sorry lady.

  19. Carole Rae

    Sorry this was not as good as you hoped!

  20. anna (herding cats & burning soup)

    That really is an eye catching cover! That’s a shame it kind of puttered out and didn’t work for you :/

  21. Melissa (My World...in words and pages)

    Oh sorry it ended that way for you. Glad you gave it a go though. 🙂

  22. Jennifer Bielman @ Bad Bird Reads

    Too bad the cover didn’t match the inside. 🙁

  23. Lorna

    The cover is awesome, too bad the book became boring. I will pass on this one as well. Thanks for your honest review 🙂

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