Talia Heir to the Fairy Realm by Joel Flanagan-Granneman


I've been meaning to finish this one for ages, so I am going to skip over the synopsis that I'd normally do to get the review up! 

Talia was a fantastic mix of politics, war, and romance. Flanagan-Grannemann created an interesting world that I found to be recognizable in terms of books that center around the fairy realm while making it wholly unique to their specific world. The Fairys especially, I found to be an interesting and refreshing take on a specific group of often overused fantasy characters. While Talia and her Ladies come across as very flighty and superficial at first as the book progresses we discover that's simply not the case. Talia especially. She is so much more than she first appears to be. 

World-building here is fantastic as well, and that is in large part due to this being set in an easily recognizable world as I said earlier. There's not a lot of extra work Flanagan-Grannemann has to do for the reader to almost immediately picture where we find ourselves, which allows him to focus on developing the characters and magic system much more. 

My only very small complaint here is that it is extremely dialogue-heavy. And honestly thats a me problem, but one that did bring down my enjoyment a bit. Not enough to bring it down any lower than 4 stars but, enough that I did find myself having to go back and reread several times as I had not realized one character had stopped speaking and a new one had started. 


I will definitely be continuing this series! This is a fantastic read steeped in politics that I think many will overlook because it doesn't *feel* that way at the beginning and hell the cover doesn't give much indication of this either but we all know what they say about judging books by their covers!

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