The Faerie Path Harry Potter7

Product Description

Swept away into a court of magic and beauty, she discovers she is Tania, the lost princess of Faerie: the youngest daughter of Oberon and Titania. Since Tania's mysterious disappearance on the eve of her wedding five hundred years before, Faerie has been sunk in darkness and gloom. The courtly Lord Gabriel Drake, who Tania was once to marry, has found her and brought her back.

With Tania's return, Faerie comes alive again as a land of winged children, glittering balls, and fantastic delights. But Tania can't forget Anita's world, or the boy she loved there.

Torn between two loves and between two worlds, Tania slowly comes to discover why she disappeared so long ago. She possesses a singular magical ability and she must use it to stop a sinister plan that threatens the entire world of Faerie.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #149053 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Released on: 2007-02-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 6 Up—On the day before her 16th birthday, Anita's life starts to change. She has a vision of flying, receives a mysterious and magical book as a present, and travels from modern-day London to the world of Faerie. She discovers that her boyfriend, Evan, is really Edric, servant of the scheming faerie lord Gabriel Drake, and that he has been sent to bring her home. Anita is really Princess Tania, the seventh and youngest daughter of King Oberon, and she has been lost for centuries after experimenting with her power to travel between worlds. Anita/Tania comes to accept her true identity and the joy she has brought to her father and his realm. However, all is not well in Faerie. Queen Titania has disappeared, and Gabriel Drake is somehow involved with her loss. He claims to love Tania and wants to marry her, but is actually interested only in her magical power. While the conclusion resolves Tania's immediate problems, there is ample room for a sequel. This fairy tale meets "Princess Diaries" clearly shows Anita/Tania's confusion about her identity. She is a strong character, and her sisters and their varied powers and personalities are also well drawn. The teens' romance, foreshadowed by their starring roles in their school's production of Romeo and Juliet in this world, develops as the story progresses, and frequent quotes from and allusions to the play add depth to the story.—Beth L. Meister, Pleasant View Elementary School, Franklin, WI
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From Booklist
On the eve of Anita's sixteenth birthday, her date with her new boyfriend, Evan, is interrupted by an accident that lands them both in the hospital. After a series of dreamlike visions, she awakens in Faerie as Tania, the seventh daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania, who has been missing for 500 years. Anita doesn't know what to think, and while she is trying to figure things out, she uncovers a plot that could destroy both worlds. The writing is occasionally awkward, and the book's setting and characters are typical fantasy fare. Even so, there's enough mystery, suspense, and romance to carry readers to the inevitable happy ending, and girls fond of magical princess stories won't be disappointed. Krista Hutley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

About the Author

Frewin Jones has always believed in the existence of "other worlds" that we could just step in and out of if only we knew the way. In the Mortal World, Frewin lives in southeast London with two mystical cats, Merle Oberon and Siouxsie Sioux.

Customer Reviews

Very Interesting
Not very predictable, and worth reading! Makes one curious about what is to happen next.

Anita Palmer believes herself to be having the longest dream she had ever had: Anita is a Faerie princess in her dream. It does take a while for her to realize that she is truly the Faerie Princess Tania. Tania is actually the "daughter last of daughters seven", and is the legendary sole one to tread both world of human and Faerie.

Princess Tania had disappeared on the eve of her wedding to Gabriel Drake, a duke from a renowned family. She had been with her closest sister, Princess Rathina when she disappeared. Five hundred years later, having lost all of her Faerie memories, Tania meets a boy named Evan, who is actually a servant sent by Gabriel to retrieve her. He becomes her boyfriend. Tania is finally founded by Gabriel, who brings Tania back to the Faerie world.

Tania learns that time had stopped in the Faerie world because of the King Oberon's grief over the loss of his daughter, Tania. Upon her arrival back to the Faerie world, the gloom and despair lifts from it.

Her mother, the Queen Titania, had died from a drowning accident on the same day Tania had disappeard. Princess Eden, who had witnessed it, had become solitary since then. Tania feels betrayed by Evan, whose real name is Edric Chanticleer. She believes that he had used forged love to drag her back to the Faerie world.

In this book, Tania will need to solve a mystery, each unfolding plot and buried thoughts in unpredictable minds. Princess Rathina had not been very loyal to her. It was she who had suggested to Tania to try to walk into the human world, "just to find out if she, Tania, was the one in the legend". Rathina had done that to get rid of Tania, in jealousy of her sister because she, not Rathina, would marry Gabriel. Edric had been loyal to her all that time, even risking his life to tell her the truth about Gabriel's plot. Gabriel never loved Tania, only wished to bond to her because of his greed for the ability to walk in both worlds. He had been conspiring against the King Oberon.

Upon realizing that Edric had told the truth to Tania, Gabriel sends him to the Amber Prison, a very deadly, miserable place. Tania must prevent Gabriel from marrying her by force. She sets out to free Edric from the prison, and meets surprising friends and foes along the way. Princess Eden reveals that Queen Titania had disappeared, not died.

It all ends in a quite happy scene, except that Tania must find Titania. The story will contiunue in the "Lost Queen", the second book of the series.

Really good
I bought this book expecting to give it to my sister. I wanted to read it first though. I didn't really expect much, but I was in for a suprise. I became addicted. This book paints and amazing picture of Faerie. I loved it so much that I decided to keep it and had to buy another copy for my sister. I highly recommend them.

Sequel Worthy

Anita Palmer is turning 16. The day before her birthday her boyfriend, Evan, takes her for a motor boat ride on the Thames. He wants to tell her something and Anita is excited beyond words. Unfortunately the two get in a accident before he can tell her the important news, an accident that lands both of them in the hospital.

Anita is heartbroken and Evan won't wake up. Before Anita can understand what happens Evan disappears from the hospital. Now Anita has these weird itchy marks on her back and is dreaming of another world and before she knows it she is not only in that other world, but the occupants are calling her Princess Tania, the daughter of Oberon and Titania.

Things begin to get interesting. Anita has to learn who she is, as well as who everyone was in her life before she slipped into the Mortal World. She has a fiancé and 6 sisters. But she can't quite forget her old life nor Evan, but will she be able to embrace her new life even though her heart is stuck in England?

Overall, I enjoyed this book. I didn't think I would, but I did. To be honest, it is fluff. It's total fluff. It's a coming of age story, it's romance, and a bit of intrigue, but at the heart of it all Jones delivered exactly what she wanted to... a faerie tale (no pun intended). A faerie tale with everything one could want. I like it enough to start reading the sequel of it as soon as I am done typing it, if that tells you anything. It's a lot of fun.