Ratings

Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content

Guide to Rating System

LANGUAGE

VIOLENCE

SEXUAL CONTENT

ADULT THEMES

Rating Explanation

Language:  There is frequent profanity and mild swearing (hell, damn) often amplified by the use of “bloody”.  Bloody is also used on it’s own.

Violence:  There is a brawl at a pub and men are fighting.  Kiki is chased when someone catches her stealing.  Kiki is attacked in an alley and treated roughly.  There is more stealing and chasing.  Fey attack Rieker and Tiki several times, hurting them.  Rieker remembers his family drowning in a violent storm.  There is a fight with the Fey.  Tiki hits a faery in the face making her bleed.  Rieker is clawed and bleeding.  A faerie is stabbed with an iron knife and killed.

Sexual Content:  A girl is kissed roughly by a faerie in an alley.  There is a kiss.

Adult Themes:  Kids work the streets stealing from people.  They are orphans or kids who have been discarded by their parents.  They steal to survive.  There are a few instances of drinking, including minors.  There is reference to the health issues of the time and the inability to treat those conditions.

Synopsis

For Tiki, life is about stealing enough each day to be able to feed her “family”, a group of kids banded together by circumstance.  Orphaned and discarded, these kids work the streets each day in a desperate struggle to survive and avoid getting caught.  When the opportunity to steal a gorgeous, mesmerizing ring literally falls in front of her, Kiki seizes the moment, thus setting off a chain of events that she could never have imagined.  The ring holds the promise of peace between the human and fey worlds.  In the wrong hands, it could bring destruction.  And everyone, it seems, wants that ring and will do anything to get it.

This was a fast moving story that drew me in from the first moments and made me want to keep reading.  Tiki’s desire to take care of and protect her “family” of orphans is touching and admirable.  I love the setting in England and I love the ring at the center of this story.  If I could erase the language from this book, I would be shouting my book love here.  This is a well written, engaging story.