It all makes me quite grumpy, because I like intense worldbuilding and-when applicable-exhaustive historical detail. There are so many other fantasies set in a vaguely Regency-esque era, and all of them throw around words like “propriety,” “gown,” and “ballroom” without convincing me that the writers understand the idea that people in the past had their own cultures, full of nuance and depth. Not at all.įor me, the biggest feat of the book was the way the author made the setting work. Meanwhile, our heroine, a lovely but relatively penniless young woman, has entered the social scene and fallen in love with a man who doesn’t appear to be the mysterious Rose. Fortunately for the children, a mysterious human known as “the Rose” is extremely good at rescuing them. The plot concept is borrowed from The Scarlet Pimpernel, but instead of a French Revolution we have fairies stealing human children and forcing them to dance. It’s a fantasy, set in a world inspired by British upper-class life of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries.
This book pulls off a feat that’s actually quite difficult.
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