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A review by ruthsic
Derailed by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge
3.0
Warnings: homomisia
Derailed is actually a prequel novella in the Circuit Fae series, which I haven’t read yet, but it did not make much of a difference for this book. The events of this novella supposedly take place before the plot of the first book Moribund, and it is about the first time that the princesses of the two faery courts meet. Syl is a sleeper princess of the fair Fae, and Rouen is of the dark Fae and bound to the Wild Hunt to hunt down sleeper princesses. Syl’s power has been contained by her grandmother so she passes as mortal, but a chance encounter happens when Syl meets Rouen at the latter’s concert. For her part, Syl has had a crush on her favorite musician but Rouen feels a lingering connection from a single touch of Syl.
Most of the novel is devoted to Rouen being puppeteered around by the leader of the Wild Hunt, who apparently did not get the notice that Rouen is a lesbian and couldn’t care less about him. He wants to use her power to break the circle of iron around Syl’s town; neither of them know Syl is the sleeper princess but they know she is in the town. Now, while Rouen’s parts are about causing the mayhem asked of her, it is also quite repetitive - she constantly lingers on how Syl made her feel, the innocence she sees in her, and how they can never be. (Geez, you met her for like 5 hot seconds) Syl, meanwhile is feeling low because Rouen blows her off and her best friend is being a creepy homomisic bitch. What the book does have going for it, though, is that even in the limited space of a novella, it establishes the world enough that you don’t feel lost despite never having read Moribund. What kind of ruined it in the end was the weird rushed ending.
Overall, a good novella but I am still on the fence if I want to continue onto the main books. I am certainly intrigued by the f/f romance in the novel, but Rouen mostly comes across as a female stand-in for the tortured bad boy trope in this one.
Received an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review from Ink Monster LLC, via Netgalley.
Derailed is actually a prequel novella in the Circuit Fae series, which I haven’t read yet, but it did not make much of a difference for this book. The events of this novella supposedly take place before the plot of the first book Moribund, and it is about the first time that the princesses of the two faery courts meet. Syl is a sleeper princess of the fair Fae, and Rouen is of the dark Fae and bound to the Wild Hunt to hunt down sleeper princesses. Syl’s power has been contained by her grandmother so she passes as mortal, but a chance encounter happens when Syl meets Rouen at the latter’s concert. For her part, Syl has had a crush on her favorite musician but Rouen feels a lingering connection from a single touch of Syl.
Most of the novel is devoted to Rouen being puppeteered around by the leader of the Wild Hunt, who apparently did not get the notice that Rouen is a lesbian and couldn’t care less about him. He wants to use her power to break the circle of iron around Syl’s town; neither of them know Syl is the sleeper princess but they know she is in the town. Now, while Rouen’s parts are about causing the mayhem asked of her, it is also quite repetitive - she constantly lingers on how Syl made her feel, the innocence she sees in her, and how they can never be. (Geez, you met her for like 5 hot seconds) Syl, meanwhile is feeling low because Rouen blows her off and her best friend is being a creepy homomisic bitch. What the book does have going for it, though, is that even in the limited space of a novella, it establishes the world enough that you don’t feel lost despite never having read Moribund. What kind of ruined it in the end was the weird rushed ending.
Overall, a good novella but I am still on the fence if I want to continue onto the main books. I am certainly intrigued by the f/f romance in the novel, but Rouen mostly comes across as a female stand-in for the tortured bad boy trope in this one.
Received an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review from Ink Monster LLC, via Netgalley.