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

Ratings Explanation

Language:  Most swear words are used, multiple times, with the exception of the f-word.  Hell and damn in various forms are used frequently.  There are also frequent exclamations involving deity.  Words like piss, slut and bastard are also used.

Violence:  Meghan finds her mom lying on kitchen floor with blood on her face.  A changling bites Meghan on the leg.  Goblins chase and attack Meghan.  They want to eat her and talk about cutting off her fingers.  A monster attacks and kills different fey.  There is blood everywhere.  The fey cut off the monster’s head and rip out its flesh.  An ogre kills redcaps and other fey.  Puck and Ash fight with sword and knife.  Ash is hurt and bleeding.  Meghan and friends go to a Voodoo museum where they see many gross and disgusting things.  Iron fey attack.  There is a chase.  Puck gets shot with a gun.  A satyr chases Meghan and tries to kill her.  A dragon attacks Meghan and Ash.  Acid rain falls and burns holes in everyone out in it.  Ash tells a story of death and revenge.  Ash fights against the gremlins.  The Iron King uses his cables to punch through one of his knight’s armor.  There is blood.  Meghan and Ash fight the Iron King.

Sexual Content:  Someone says, “I’m not like inflate-a-boob.”  Someone uses Photoshop to create a picture of Meghan naked with lewd words on it and texts it to everyone.  They fey will “make you dance ‘til you’re exhausted and then rape you one by one.”  Someone asks Meghan if she is still a virgin.  Meghan sees a human boy with fey girls swarming him, kissing and touching him everywhere.  Meghan enters a dance club and sees people dancing and engaging in sexual behaviors.  A fey is wearing a tee that barely covers her breasts.  Ash threatens to freeze someone’s testicles.  Ash and Meghan kiss.  Meghan is called a slut.

Adult Themes:  Robbie suggests that he and Meghan celebrate her birthday by drinking champagne.  Meghan talks about drinking beer and not liking it, but thinking wine was okay but that she wasn’t much of an alcohol drinker.  Meghan’s father disappears one day and nobody has ever been able to find him.  Meghan’s brother is abducted.  Meghan eats a fey fruit that makes her drunk.

Synopsis

Meghan Chase has been looking forward to her sixteenth birthday.  It’s the magical birthday where you gain the independence of driving and the world of possibilities are endless.  Perhaps a romance, or a new car.  But that’s not how it happens for Meghan.  Instead, Meghan gets a chart topping horrible day at school, a changling for a brother, a fey for a best friend and a whole bunch of creatures that want her dead.  Oh, and definitely no drivers license.  Meghan sets off on a journey through the world of the Fey to rescue her brother with Puck as her guide.  She doesn’t expect to discover that King Oberon is her father, and she is a princess. The world of Fey is unusual and frightening but Meghan is determined to find her brother and bring him home.

The story here is a good one, a paranormal adventure with all the otherworldly creatures making appearances.  This book is well written and fast paced.  It’s easy reading with nothing too deep or profound.  I got a good sense of the characters but found by the end that I still had lots of questions.  I wanted to know more.  School Library Journal gives a recommended reading level of 8^th grade and up.  My recommendation would be upper high school.