The faeries of this tale are not the friendly kind you might find on a child book shelf, but bloodthirsty ones who feed on the blood of humans.

The tale follows Kam through high society balls and chaperones while all the time she is on the lookout for faeries. The quote at the back of the book says “Jane Austen’s high society and the Grimms’ fairy tales”, and while that is perhaps true, I would go with “Historical Fantasy” or maybe “Victoriana Steampunk with faeries”. The story is set in the 1800s in Scotland, with ornithopters, locomotives, blunderbusses and clockwork devices as well as magic and fairies. The first volume of a trilogy from an exciting new voice in young adult fantasy, this electrifying thriller combines romance and action, steampunk technology and Scottish lore in a deliciously addictive read.The Falconer by Elizabeth May is the first in what appears to be a series of books following the adventures of Lady Aileana Kameron (or Kam) as she lives the double life of daughter of the Marquess of Douglas on one hand and the life of a fairy hunter (or aforementioned Falconer) on the other. She still longs to avenge her mother’s murder-but she’ll have to save the world first. Suddenly, her quest is a lot more complicated. The last in a line of female warriors born with a gift for hunting and killing the fae, Aileana is the sole hope of preventing a powerful faery population from massacring all of humanity. With her knack for inventing ingenious tools and weapons-from flying machines to detonators to lightning pistols-ruthless Aileana has one goal: Destroy the faery who destroyed her mother. Now Aileana is dedicated to slaying the fae before they take innocent lives. she’s leading a double life: She has a rare ability to sense the sìthíchean-the faery race obsessed with slaughtering humans-and, with the aid of a mysterious mentor, has spent the year since her mother died learning how to kill them. Eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, has everything a girl could dream of: brains, charm, wealth, a title-and drop-dead beauty.īut Aileana only looks the part of an aristocratic young lady.

One girl’s nightmare is this girl’s faery taleĮdinburgh, 1844. The Falconer (The Falconer #1) by Elizabeth May – Free eBooks Download

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