This was a tough one for me because I adore stories about the Fae. There was a lot of promise but the delivery didn’t quite work out.

We have this family who is original to the land. They have made bargains with fairies to help make things a little easier around the farm. With that being said, they have been continuously warned not to talk to the Fae or make bargains that come with a steep price. Don’t eat their food, be very careful how you word your bargains, and etc. This story mainly focuses on two sisters, Alaine and Delphine. These two could not be more opposite. While, Alaine is happy taking over the family farm, Delphine wants something more and bigger. They both do small fairy bargains to get ahead in life and when things get overwhelming they start to up the bargains.

One of the most frustrating things about this book is that you can see everything unfold from the beginning. There’s so many warnings and so many obvious moments that these two sisters ignore. It’s always just “one more time” or “I know what I’m doing.” Clearly, you never know what you are doing when it comes to the Fae. There’s so many bad decisions right after the other and it’s so hard to connect to either sister. Most of this book was just pure frustration.

The first 55% of this book is so slow. The pacing is completely off on this one. It made it difficult to really want to dive into the story. I found myself almost wanting to DNF it a couple of times. I love stories about the Fae and the bargains were so interesting. I really enjoyed learning about that aspect. Also, there’s a point that we are in the Fae world and that was really interesting too.

Overall, I did not enjoy this one as much as I was hoping. I am so grateful to Jordyn and Julie for buddy reading this with me. We all kind of came to the same conclusions. There are many things about this book that had so much potential but it just fell short. If you enjoy reading about characters that will constantly frustrate you and make every bad decision then this is the one for you.

Many thanks to Orbit for an ARC to review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.