I enjoyed this more than I thought I would! It’s fun, an easy read where you sit down to read a chapter or two and whoops 5 or 10 chapters have just flown by. And I love it when I do that with books! Where I don’t even realise I’ve read 8 or even like 12 chapters because I’m so focused on reading the book. I’ve just started Feener’s other book now and I think it’ll be an easy read too as I think her books and writing are that easy and quick to read.

Abandoned Things tells a very interesting story about Frankie, a famous writer of a very popular web novel, who doesn’t realise the fictional world and the characters he’s so famous for (even though he writes under a pen name) is actually real. Not until some of the characters come into his world, our world as well.

It’s a thrilling ride of action and adventure, love and passion (regarding writing and romance). The characters drew me in and the story kept me wanting to read until the very end. It’s definitely something I also enjoyed and now makes me want to read more of the author’s other books. 

As much as I enjoyed reading about Frankie, Rook definitely took the prize of the favourite character – he’s a bad boy, come on! Of course I’m going to root for him. He was sarcastic, romantic (which are two things that I do love a lot 😄). That type of character you can’t help but love because he makes you smirk at his antics or grin when he’s doing something romantic. And of course, he’s a good bad boy (as opposed to boring or supposed bad boys but all they do is like ride a motorcycle (wow!) or wear a lot of black (so bad!).

Frankie and Rook had great banter and I liked seeing them in scenes together. It was an easy banter which turned into a relationship I could see – which I like to see in books. And this was the case here. I’ve probably said this before but I do always enjoy when the banter and the relationship attached to that banter are both easy ones that I can see working out. Nothing I dislike more than relationships with no chemistry, or there’s ‘chemistry’ but it’s more platonic than romantic – you get my gist.

Then there was Sage, who’s one of the main characters in the web novel, who sort of becomes Frankie’s other love interest. I say sort of because it was obvious who Frankie would end up with. Not that I minded the lead up to that, definitely not. I like d what we got of him; and I definitely wouldn’t say no to Feener possibily writing Gold and Silver – Frankie’s series. 

The plot and action that went along with that was both written quite well. I could tell that the author knew how to write action scenes well – either from reading a lot of fantasy books or from writing all of her other books- which she has quite a backlist of! That’s another thing I really enjoy being able to see when I read books – how much the author enjoys writing in the genre.

The easy way Feener wrote the plot also meant that it was an easy book to read – another point of the book that I liked. I’ve already started another book of hers and I think I’ll like it too! I can tell that I’ll like it too and probably/mostly other books of hers that I get around to read.