I've been really looking for a good fantasy romance and I finally found a good one! Lately I've been running into issues of overly immature main characters, but I really enjoyed Rosalina as the main perspective.

Rosalina lives in Orca's Cove with her absent father. Her father is traveling around the globe looking for a way past the "veil" that separates their world from the fae as he believes his wife was taken by the fae. Rosalina supports herself working at the local bookstore as she loves reading but is subject to the gossip of the local town. She has a toxic relationship with her ex boyfriend, Lucas, who left her when he went to college. After her father goes missing, she follows his tracks into the forest and finds herself in the fae land with her father prisoner of an intimidating fae. She offers to trade her place and finds herself stuck in Castletree.

I do think at first, there is a lot of "I'm not like other girls" and the archetype of the "badass" female MC, but I think the author really finds their footing throughout the book and I found I enjoyed the characters more. The world and plot is obviously very reminiscent of similar books like ACOTAR and similar books, but I still enjoyed it nonetheless and the tropes were well done.

It's easy to tell there are going to multiple reveals to the story and I'm excited to see them unfold.