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7/29/2022 0 Comments

The Fae Keeper by H.E. Edgmon

I loved The Witch King and was both excited and anxious to read this sequel, but luckily it continued this unique, magical and emotional fantasy story with the same great humor and amazing trans rep.
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The Fae Keeper continues where the first book ended, with Asalin in turmoil and with Emyr and Wyatt hunting Derek and Clarke after having abolished the corrupt Guard. Along the way, they learn new truths about the witches, Wyatt struggles to learn control of his magic and his feelings for Emyr and Briar, and they will all experience new trauma, but also love and forgiveness.

Compared to the first book, the story got even darker this time and there were some really sad and tragic moments. Many of the characters were struggling, and trying to deal with all the bad things they’ve gone through. I especially loved Wyatt’s character development; he made some true personal growth in this book and started to acknowledge his previous bad behavior and find more inner peace. His narration was still as hilarious, witty and sarcastic as in the first book though!

The relationship between Wyatt and Briar also developed a lot, with Wyatt starting to see Briar as a real person with flaws and realizing how dependent and selfish he’d been from time to time when relaying on Briar’s need to try and fix him. Their love and support for each other grew even stronger, while at the same time they gave each other some healthy room to grow as individuals.

And Emyr was just as much of a sweetheart and continued to be my absolute favorite character! I loved that we got to see more of his thoughts and feelings, and how he came to realize he was demisexual in this book. I also loved the way Wyatt described him, and how his feelings grew for Emyr, like in this quote:

“I don’t know how it’s possible for one person to be everything, but he is. Masculine and feminine, soft and strong, a leader and a partner, darkness and light.”

Just as in the first book, I really enjoyed the world building and how it pinpointed topics like racism, colonialism and systematic oppression, as well as gender. There was such a great representation, with trans, gender fluid and demisexual characters, and great discussions about gender woven into the story, like in this quote:

“Faery doesn’t have trans people?”

“Faery is not arrogant enough to assume we know everything about our children before they’ve had a chance to learn it for themselves.” She shakes her head. “There are as many genders as there are people. And each one of them comes into the language they’d like to use for themselves, in their own time.”

The first half of the book was a bit slow though, with Wyatt having internal monologues in the middle of the events going on and with some longer backstories to the fae and witches relationships as well as new creatures being introduced, but that was more than compensated in the second half when the story really upped the pace. There was also a part towards the end where several other POVs were suddenly introduced, which I’m not sure I really liked. It was an interesting attempt to tell the many parallel subplots and explain things from the other characters view, but their voices were not as distinct as I’d wished (they were all a bit too similar to Wyatt’s somehow) and it made the story sprawling and the big climax a bit difficult to comprehend. I had to reread those chapters to fully understand everything that happened. I think the ending could have been a bit fuller, or that there could have been an epilogue. As it was not, it felt a bit sudden and like there were some loose treads that could have been further explained or explored.

But all in all, even though I wasn’t as blown away by this book as I was by the first one, I truly love this magical, gripping and unique duology and recommend it with all my heart!

Rating:
4.5 stars rounding up to 5

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