Fae from all the courts will be chosen to take part. The fae queen has revived an old, long forgotten, trial to find a worthy champion to try and overcome this plague. The land of the fae is suffering from a plague, a blight that is killing the precious children and leaving the land it touches blighted and scorched. To return home to act as Champion for the Shadow Court in the forthcoming Trial of Thorns.

As the story begins she is given the chance of redemption. As it happens I had no need to worry., the romance here is barely touched upon, in fact this is a very slow burn with rising chemistry between two fae who are enemies and the ending leaves things hanging in the balance.Ĭaelyn, of the Shadow Court, was banished to the human world for killing a fae prince. To be totally frank I had reservations going into this one and can’t deny I was worried that it might be more heavy on the romance than I would like. Trial of Thorns is a story of the fae and the first book in the Wicked Fae series. I won’t be posting a rating for the books at this point. I will then repeat this format the following week. Hopefully five reviews this week followed by an update and cuts and semi finalist announcements on Saturday. This week and next I will be posting reviews for the ten books I rolled forward to read fully.

My recent update in which I announced further cuts and two semi-finalists can be found here. You can find my updates for batch 1, batch 2, batch 3, Batch 4 and Batch 5 by clicking on the links. The 1st of June marked the start of the sixth Self Published Fantasy Blog Off (details here.) My Introductory post is here.

Trial of Thorns by Stacey Trombley