{"id":4709,"date":"2010-04-02T00:44:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2010-04-02T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:14:07","slug":"the-tree-shepherds-daughter-faire-folk-trilogy-book-01-by-gillian-summers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/the-tree-shepherds-daughter-faire-folk-trilogy-book-01-by-gillian-summers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree Shepherd&#8217;s Daughter (Faire Folk Trilogy Book 01) by Gillian Summers"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/n263093.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Tree Shepherd&#8217;s Daughter (Faire Folk Trilogy Book 01)<br \/>\nby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilliansummers.com\/\">Gillian Summers<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<td valign='top'>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood is forced to leave her beloved California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival in Colorado. After arriving, Keelie finds men in tights and women in trailer trash-tight bodices roaming half-drunk, calling each other lady and lord even after closing time! Play-acting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl&#8217;s worst nightmare. Keelie has a plan to ditch this medieval geekland ASAP, but while she plots, strange things start happening-eerie, yet familiar. When Keelie starts seeing fairies and communicating with trees, she uncovers a secret that links her to a community of elves. As Keelie tries to come to grips with her elfin roots, disaster strikes, and Keelie&#8217;s identity isn&#8217;t the only thing that&#8217;s threatened. One part human determination and one part elfin magic, Keelie Heartwood is a witty new heroine in a world where fantasy and reality mix with extraordinary results.<\/p>\n<p><b>Buy From:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3jcQu9V\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy-amazon-button.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/31mmr9p\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy-amazon_in.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Rating: <\/b> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_Golden.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Star_White.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Review:<\/b><br \/>\nThe first book in the Faire Folk trilogy is a light hearted book to read. Aimed at the young adult it was fun reading a book that wasn&#8217;t all gloom and despair. The characters in the book were mostly well written though some of the supporting cast could have been expanded a bit more. A lot of books have been written about elves and some of them even show the elves as a part of the Renaissance fair but still the book managed to stand out on its own and didn&#8217;t sound like a copy of other works. I liked the way the lead character takes time to work through her fears and finally accepts that she has the ability to magic after a lot of thought. In too many books it seems like the hero\/heroine is told that they are magical and they accept it immediately which is quite unrealistic. <\/p>\n<p>Final recommendation: A must read. Going to see if I can find the other books in the series, hopefully they will be as good as this one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tree Shepherd&#8217;s Daughter (Faire Folk Trilogy Book 01) by Gillian Summers Description: When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood is forced to leave her beloved California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival in Colorado. After arriving, Keelie finds men in tights and women in trailer trash-tight bodices roaming half-drunk, calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}