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Gateway To Faerie (2000)

by M.D. Bowden(Favorite Author)

3.27 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Romance

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Gateway to Faerie

review 1: The book introduces you to its protagonist, Fayth, a teenager living with her father in a vastly destroyed Great Britain, 200 years after a faerie invasion. Her father has taught her to fight and survive in case of another invasion. Her routine of training and learning for the upcoming exams ends abruptly as dark shadows encircle her father – the gateway to faerie has opened again. With two companions she sets out to find the Bell Stone – to save the world. I will not tell you more about the story than shown in the Goodreads plot description. This would spoil the fun of reading this book yourself.With Gateway to Faerie, M.D. Bowden has created an urban fantasy adventure for young adults showing the importance of cooperating. Gateway to Faerie is an entertaining and fas... moret read.
review 2: 2.5 out of 5Gateway to Faerie was provided to me by the good folks at storycartel.com for an honest review. Of course, that in no way adjusts my review of the book, but it does give me access to some books that I wouldn’t have normally picked up to read. Whether I like those books on a personal level sometimes varies. Gateway is a book that I would recommend to the Young Adult and Teen audience looking for a dystopian novel that qualifies as an ‘easy, clean’ read. Bowden has written a nice story with sharp edges and an unusual world build.Fayth Blackman lives in a dystopian world, set two hundred years or so after a global apocalypse blamed on religious fanaticism and growing to nuclear war. In reality, the destruction is the outcome of a gateway between worlds, allowing the faerie world to intersect with our own through a gateway opened by evil fae.I have read and enjoyed many YA books, some of which as exceptionally written. Sadly, this isn’t one of them. Though not offensively incompetently written, there is still a great deal that could be better about the book. The story line when dealing with the three main characters is pretty much ‘rinse and repeat’ – the whole walk, fight, walk, fight, teenager finds love in a time of terror situation. The editing of the book is poor, the sentence structure is choppy, and overall I wish that the author would find a really good editor and work to outgrow the “See Fayth Run, Run Fayth Run” flow of the books narrative. The concept pulls the book back from a lower star rating, simply because the government line of what happened to the world two hundred years ago vs. the reality is interesting. Even now, the books and schooling which Fayth receives are “humancentric” rather than realistic. The book also ends rather abruptly. I note that there is a second volume, but I won’t be reading it, as I understand from reviews that it is not written any better than the first, is novella length and basically would have been better served to be added into this volume. Overall, this is a “tell it” not a “show it” and it simply didn’t enthrall me, even with the understanding that it is designed for a YA audience. Just because that is your audience doesn’t mean that your audience should be talked down to. A great number of the YA readers out there are smarter, better educated, and more literate than their Adult counterparts. I would rate this book a 2.5 on a 5 point scale based on back story only. less

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