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A review by olivia_is_reading
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Parry
4.0
⋆₊ ⊹✉️ Thank you to Redhook & Orbit books and Netgalley for the arc!
3.75 ☆ | midly grusome descriptions | ♥︎♡♡♡♡
↳ 14 +
I’m a bit conflicted. Disappointed even. I have to admit it had all of the features that I love in fantasy novels about faeries. And I love the Fae, truly, and every novel I read about their wicked ways. It’s just like so good I don’t know why I have an odd fascination with it but it’s so fun! It’s just so interesting to read about people studying things that I know that do not exist. Magical schools intrigue me very much and Camford was no different. It reminded me almost of Hogwarts in the best way possible and when the character (Clover) walks up to it for the first time there was just something so magical about it!
This novel is not just about a girl from a non-magical place trying to learn magic. It’s more than that, it’s found family, friendship, and what it means to really truly trust someone. However, not all the characters in this book are trustworthy. It shows you the world and people through different lense.
This book reminds me of Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries. This book would be like what I imagine studying under Professor Emily Wilde and I think that’s really cool. That's what I imagined the whole time while I was reading the first part at least. When I made it to the 60% mark of the book, I felt like I was reading a completely different book at first. It wasn’t the story but how it was structured that bothered me. The first part of the book follows Clover and her friends when she is about 18 and in university and the second part is when she’s older. I felt like it just wasn’t connected but it was, but it also wasn’t. I don’t know. Like I said I was very conflicted on this. I really did think that this was going to be a five-star read for me, but unfortunately, it was not.
If it was possibly written in more of a diary-like format to begin with and then the ending stays what it was I think that I would’ve liked it better? I hope you can tell how conflicted I am right now. I do highly recommend this, though. The writing and the characters especially! I will definitely be reading another book by the author this time. I’m not sure if I will purchase a physical copy when it comes out later this year though. But I might.
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3.75 ☆ | midly grusome descriptions | ♥︎♡♡♡♡
↳ 14 +
I’m a bit conflicted. Disappointed even. I have to admit it had all of the features that I love in fantasy novels about faeries. And I love the Fae, truly, and every novel I read about their wicked ways. It’s just like so good I don’t know why I have an odd fascination with it but it’s so fun! It’s just so interesting to read about people studying things that I know that do not exist. Magical schools intrigue me very much and Camford was no different. It reminded me almost of Hogwarts in the best way possible and when the character (Clover) walks up to it for the first time there was just something so magical about it!
This novel is not just about a girl from a non-magical place trying to learn magic. It’s more than that, it’s found family, friendship, and what it means to really truly trust someone. However, not all the characters in this book are trustworthy. It shows you the world and people through different lense.
This book reminds me of Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries. This book would be like what I imagine studying under Professor Emily Wilde and I think that’s really cool. That's what I imagined the whole time while I was reading the first part at least. When I made it to the 60% mark of the book, I felt like I was reading a completely different book at first. It wasn’t the story but how it was structured that bothered me. The first part of the book follows Clover and her friends when she is about 18 and in university and the second part is when she’s older. I felt like it just wasn’t connected but it was, but it also wasn’t. I don’t know. Like I said I was very conflicted on this. I really did think that this was going to be a five-star read for me, but unfortunately, it was not.
If it was possibly written in more of a diary-like format to begin with and then the ending stays what it was I think that I would’ve liked it better? I hope you can tell how conflicted I am right now. I do highly recommend this, though. The writing and the characters especially! I will definitely be reading another book by the author this time. I’m not sure if I will purchase a physical copy when it comes out later this year though. But I might.
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