Magic Harvest by Mary Karlik
Published by: Ink Monster LLC
Publication date: September 18th 2018
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Published by: Ink Monster LLC
Publication date: September 18th 2018
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
About the Book
Young fae girls are disappearing.
Layla
has never belonged to the fairy realm – at least, half of her hasn’t.
She’s never known anyone with human blood, not even her father. When she
was three, the dragon Fauth attacked the fairy festival, murdering her
fae mum & stepfather. Frankly, some fairies think she should’ve been
eaten too.
As she
grew, despite being called names like “fuman” for being a half-blood,
she’s discovered that being half-human isn’t terrible. She may lack
magic, but she is immune to iron sickness, and she can wield a sword
with elven skill.
Magic in the human world is disastrous.
Sixteen years later,
when Layla’s half-sister is kidnapped and taken through a portal to the
forbidden human realm, Layla rushes to the rescue. She’s older and
stronger, and she’s not about to let her last living family member be
taken from her without a fight.
Only someone who belongs to both worlds can find the truth.
The
portal spits her out in the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, but neither her
sister or the kidnapper are anywhere to be found. Stuck in a world she
only knows from school books, Layla forges unlikely alliances to find
her sister. As she becomes tangled in the dark world of fairy
trafficking, magic harvesting, and murder, Layla will have to find the
strength within if she is to survive and save her sister.
I really like fairies quite a bit, so when I see a book about fairies I like to try the first book in the series. Magic Harvest was a pretty good showing for a fairy book. There is magic and good versus evil and then some in this book. The book follows Layla, a half-fairy/half-human, who is thrown into a rescue mission when her half-sister is fairy-napped but some dark mysterious horseman and dragged into the human world.
Layla is an interesting main character and I could see where some readers might have given up on her early on. She is kind of depressing and honestly after all the fairies and her sister have put her through in the beginning of the book, I am not sure why she even goes after them to save them. She is very emotional throughout the whole book and in some places it did get a little annoying but the plot of the book was interesting enough to keep me going.
I liked that Layla had to be the hero to save the fairies and I really liked her interactions with the humans that end up helping her. The evil in the book was a perfect mix of scary, mysterious, and frustrating and I think it all came together well. So overall I think this was a good start to a series - that being said, you can read just this book and isn't a complete cliffhanger to the next book. Instead it offers the opportunity to keep going if you want to. I really like books that do that.
So if you are looking for a new series, like fairies and magic, and a good versus evil story this one might be for you.
Layla is an interesting main character and I could see where some readers might have given up on her early on. She is kind of depressing and honestly after all the fairies and her sister have put her through in the beginning of the book, I am not sure why she even goes after them to save them. She is very emotional throughout the whole book and in some places it did get a little annoying but the plot of the book was interesting enough to keep me going.
I liked that Layla had to be the hero to save the fairies and I really liked her interactions with the humans that end up helping her. The evil in the book was a perfect mix of scary, mysterious, and frustrating and I think it all came together well. So overall I think this was a good start to a series - that being said, you can read just this book and isn't a complete cliffhanger to the next book. Instead it offers the opportunity to keep going if you want to. I really like books that do that.
So if you are looking for a new series, like fairies and magic, and a good versus evil story this one might be for you.
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About the Author
Mary
Karlik has always been a dreamer. When she was a teen, she read The
Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and then sat in every wardrobe in her
Nanna’s home, trying to open the door to Narnia. She didn’t find it, but
she did discover her voice as an author: one filled with her young
adult self, and grounded in her roots as a Texan and her Scottish
heritage, nourished by obscure Scottish folklore.You can find her Texas roots in her YA contemporary romance Hickville series , which has been described as “100% solid storytelling,” and begins with Welcome to Hickville High, a “lovely story about growing up.”
She digs deep into her Scottish roots – there is magic there, she just knows it – for the forthcoming YA epic fantasy Fairy Trafficking series, beginning with Magic Harvest.
She makes her home in the beautiful Sangre de Cristo mountains of Northern New Mexico where she is a certified professional ski instructor, but she also loves visiting Scotland where she is currently studying Scottish Gaelic at the University of Highlands and Islands in Skye. Mary also earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, has a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University, and is a Registered Nurse.
Mary currently serves as the President of the Young Adult Chapter of Romance Writers of America and looks forward to raising a glass or two of gin and tonic with her fellow writers every year at RWA’s national convention.
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