Title: Interim Blue (The Teleen Trilogy #1)
Author: Alexia Purdy
Release Date: July 5th 2011
Source: Received from the author for an honest review
Shade is just trying to graduate high school. Just another ordinary teenager with some quirky talents. One day, the bothersome voices she sometimes hears in her head bring her to a chance meeting with a powerful faerie warrior named Jack. He wields electrical currents and blue fires along his skin. Joining him, she enters the mysterious, frightening and magical world of Faerie, where nothing is what it really seems to be.
Shade is selected by the Seelie Queen to fulfill a quest to obtain a liquid magic that could aid the Guildrin Court of Faeries in an ongoing war against the evil Unseelie Queen and her treacherous Lonares soldiers. Around every corner and across breathtaking landscapes of the world of Faerie that exists alongside our ever so mundane world, Shade grows along with her magic and meets some of the most powerful warriors Faerie has to offer. Shade battles evil dryads, conniving Teleen guards and challenges on her life with every step. In a world where nothing is taken for granted or underestimated, Shade discovers that she might not be as weak as she or others may have perceived.
My Thoughts
Interim Blue is not a safe, boring, rehashing of your every day faerie story.
This tale of the Seelie and Unseelie courts has new and interesting characters, with new and interesting powers.
Yes all the elements of fae that we know and love are there, but with this story, there is more.
Have you ever read a book that reached into your chest and gave your heart a squeeze from the very first page?
Thats what Interim Blue did to me yesterday.
I read the prologue and stopped to scribble in my notebook: heartbreaking, hooked already.
The emotions of those first pages literally seeped from my e-reader and made me all gooey inside.
Shade is a great character.
Totally normal in every human way you can get. Except of course for the voices in her head. But other than that, you know, totally normal.
The action starts pretty much right of the mark and there is a lot of intrigue to be had throughout the book. Shade manages to find herself in hot water a lot. She's a bit of a trouble magnet!
I did find the writing a little bumpy, and the story itself lacked a little polish, or the finesse that you may find with other stories of the same vane.
However, I liked this story much, much more than the raved about stories of fae that I've read recently.
Its gripping, gritty, fresh, and full of 'bad boys' (and girls).
Some of whom you'll hate and some you will fall a little in love with.
I thought I was over faeries and the like but this is so fresh and vibrant with completely new races of fae that I'm excited to say I cant wait to read more.
I will definately be putting Book 2 in the Treleen Trilogy on my 'to read' list.
A solid 4 Star read ;]
If you want some more information on the author Alexia Purdy, or her books here are a complete of links that may interest you
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Interim-Blue-Teleen-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B005AQ4CJ4/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
Alexia's Blog http://alexiapurdy.blogspot.com/
Goodreads profile http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5038699.Alexia_Purdy?origin=
Interim Blue facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Interim-Blue-The-Teleen-Trilogy-by-Alexia-Purdy/136515463095840?ref=ts
