The Faerie Path

Title: The Faerie Path Author: Frewin Jones Genre:  Fantasy, Young Adult Length: 312 pages (paperback) Sensitive Content:  No Rating:  3 out of 5

Anita is a young woman from London just about to turn 16.  She has a loving family, a newish boyfriend and a best friend with whom she shares all of her secrets.

On the day before her birthday, Anita meets Evan for a birthday surprise, a boat ride.  The two are having a great time and Evan begins to share something with her.  However, the boat is hit and both end up in the hospital.  When Anita wakes, Evan is on the same floor as her, but he hasn't regained consciousness.

Anita begins to have strange dreams, one of which she grows wings and flies.  Evan ends up missing.  Anita is then fully transported into a dream world of the Faerie.  In her dream, she is the seventh daughter of the king.

Anita learns her name is Tania, the long lost daughter who has the ability to move between the Mortal World and Faerie World.  She coninues to believe she's in a coma as the story unfolds.

The story is told from Anita/Tania's point of view.  The author is building the characters and providing quite a bit of background as this is the first book in a series.  He provides intricate details regarding the dress as well as landscape when in the Faerie World.

The story is written for the young adult.  I would gauge that this is written for a younger teen as it was quite easy to determine what would be happening next.  While it is fantasy, other than moving between the Moral and Faerie Worlds, there wasn't a lot of fantasy at play.