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Dark Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

5 reviews

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A little slow at first and Gareth’s chapters are boring lol but I love Ryder, Gabriel, Leon, and Dante. Elise is great and I’m excited to see where this goes the ending really picked it up for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Torture, and Death of parent

colorcrystals's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

grace28's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

 I just want to start by saying Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti wrote my most favourite book series ever Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep and I loved everything about it. So when I was struggling to find a book to read where the writing wasn't a piece of crap they came to mind and let me tell you I'm not disappointed in the slightest. I stopped reading mid-book 3 times over with separate series because I just could not deal with shitty writing and after reading Dark Fae I'm so pleased that there are four more books left for me to devour.

Quick blurb:

Elise has suffered the unimaginable loss of her brother and the worse part is that he was murdered and they ruled it an accidental death. So she set off to Aurora Academy to get the revenge she so helplessly craves. The only hitch is her clue, and it leads her to four gorgeously dangerous men who want her almost as much as she wants her brother's killer.



This book was really well done and thats exactly what I was looking for, the authors never come up short with the spice either even though it's a medium burn for most of them anyway.

I'm really excited to read the second book and I can just focus on the plot and character development instead of unrealistically hoping that the writing would get better in so many other book series I've read.

Overall I rate this book 3.5 stars only because it's the first book and we all know in complex world-building like this that world talks up space that later gets used for the best of scenes and such.

I highly recommend it if you're looking for a strong FMC that doesn't just fall at the feet of the MMCs and that isn't a bully romance for once (even tho I love bully romances). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

azapolya's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

0.25

Truly the worst book I've ever read in my entire life. It's literally just a dumpster fire of misogyny. I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing. If someone offered me a trillion dollars and immorality to read another book from this author...I would spit in their face. Which is what this author did to me with this waste of brain of cells. I wouldn't wish this book on my worst enemy. I would sooner stab myself in the eye than recommend this to anyone.

the .25 is for the brother's POV only

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting