Winner of the Book Buyer’s Best Award The USA Today bestselling Feyland series continues, when a hotshot gamer meets a mysterious girl who challenges everything he thinks is real…OUTSIDE THE GAME…Rich-boy gamer Royal Lassiter lives on easy mode–until everything falls apart. Dark faeries are plotting to invade the mortal world, his controlling mom has turned home into enemy territory, and he … controlling mom has turned home into enemy territory, and he can’t deny his irresistible attraction to newcomer Brea, despite the danger lurking in her mysterious eyes.
A FAE SPY…
Forced to undertake a perilous mission for the Dark Queen of Faerie, Brea Cairgead finds living among humans and hiding her true nature as one of the fey folk a fearsome challenge–especially when her emotions prove all too vulnerable to a certain human boy. Torn between impossible loyalties, she must serve her queen… though it may cost her heart.
THREATENS EVERYTHING…
With the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance, Royal and Brea must risk everything to forge a new path forward. Can love between mortal and fey ever have a happy ending?
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In Royal, Anthea Sharp weaves an original tale where a select few teens can enter the world or of the Fae through a video game. But now the Fae have come to them in the form of Brea, a banished faerie on a mission. Royal senses something is different about her, but he can’t begin to imagine just how much Brea will upend his entire life and put everyone he loves at risk. This is a page-turner!
Must read
Read it in one sitting. It kept my interest at throughout the entire story. Highly recommend.
Love this entire series!
Did not finish
The story continues from Brea’s Tale: A Feyland Novella (Feyguard) with Brea’s reluctant quest for sacrificial victims to mark for the Dark Queen. Royal is Roy Lassiter, the spoiled rich boy turned Feyguard by his experiences in Feyland: Books 1–3. He feels a strange fascination with Brea, who is herself affected by Roy. Jennet, Tam, and Marny all feel Brea is not quite the foreign exchange student she claims to be. Roy especially is becoming bewitched by Brea. This turns into an emotional love story, with Roy evolving from a rich, spoiled, entitled snob to a tender, caring, true friend in love with Brea. Brea returns his love and is willing to sacrifice herself for him. I loved this Book, especially as part of the Feyland: The Complete Series.
I’m in the hospital and pretty much bored out of existence between endless bouts of PT. Luckily I’m a book-aholic. Even more luckily I can use my iPad to read and have a handy hubby (very useful, that) to dictate reviews to (as I cannot type currently). I’ve used this time to totally binge on what I think are all of the Feyland books by Anthea Sharp that I haven’t read yet. And by binge I mean a two-day nonstop read-fest (other than eating and the afore-mentioned massively time consuming PT) of the remaining five of these books I hadn’t already actually read.
First up in my binge was Royal: Feyland Book 5 (Feyguard 2). Frankly I think you need to at least read Spark: Feyland Book 4 (Feyguard 1) before this one (though really, this series is so good that if you’ve not read any of it yet I urge you to start with its first book, The Dark Realm). As for Royal, this book has everything that makes the series do great. Interaction between gamer setting in our world and Feyland setting. Great characters in wealthy gamer Royal Lassiter (whose character is well developed with his family life issues) and fey Brea Cairgead. Great romance and wonderful conflict for Brea with her conflict of feelings for Royal and loyalty to the Dark Queen of Faerie, and a great resolution. Add in great writing (I feel like adding an “of course” here) and a great supporting cast. Really just what any fab of this series could want.
I’m going to review the other books (Royal, Marny, How To Babysit A Changeling, Tales of Feyland and Faerie & The Faerie Girl and Other Tales) separately but here’s a clue: all easily five stars.