【 FREY 】

DNF @ 45%

Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Young Adult
Author: Melissa Wright
Published: July 2011
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 260 (eBook)

I kept waiting for this to turn into something a bit more, but inching toward the halfway mark, the plot still felt like it was dragging its feet.

It held promises of being a story of a girl discovering her magic and escaping the prejudice of her small town – all the while learning about her mother and the reason they were at that village in the first place.

But she seemed constantly confused and going back to the same point. There not so much a strong vibe of ‘not all is as it seems’, it came across more like she isn’t paying attention and is too focused on dramatising her own woes to take heed of what was going on around her. So, in any case, after nearly half the book of confusing ‘running away’ and stropping about how in trouble she is (she almost never is and everyone keeps telling her this), I decided to give up.

Sadly, not for me. The promise of magic underdelivered and the MC was irritatingly naive.

Title: Frey
Author: Melissa Wright
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Frey’s life is a lie. She doesn’t remember being bound from magic. She didn’t intend to get entangled in Council business.

But she did.

And now she’s on the run. As the Council trackers pursue her, Frey discovers a world beyond their lies. With the aid of a stranger, she fights to reclaim her true identity before the others hunt her down. If they find her, she will burn.