Whispers Among Thorns

Whispers Among Thorns by Cassandra Aston
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book built a huge world, complete with all the issues and politics you’d expect where the fae and human worlds have collided. It felt a little bit like The Boys meets a dark fairy tale. As book 1, you know this isn’t where it all ends.

Sav has been exiled to live in the human world with almost no magic. The fae are discriminated against and sometimes attacked just because of what they are, even though they are mostly bound to not harm humans no matter what injustices are carried out. There is a group riling folks up and torturing/killing fae with no punishment and that’s where we meet Jack. Jack is the son of the evil group’s leader. He’s got some mystery around him and has somehow survived this terrible world with his moral compass intact. He and Sav meet after said group carries out a particularly cruel attack.

They fall into immediate love for some reason. This, obviously, complicates matters and is a big wrench in almost all decision making from that point forward. They end up in faerie, bouncing around between folks that all generally want to kill one or both of them. Sav is forced-ish to make some binding decisions to get them both out alive. All of this and it feels like they still didn’t make big progress in saving earth-bound fae. I guess we need to see where book two takes us!

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