Rook, on the other hand, is the proverbial very-old, very-powerful non-human male that appears so often in various popular young adult stories.or at least he is on the surface. She is not a reactionary character she keeps iron on her as a weapon against the fair ones' power, and she's learned to word her requests carefully lest they trick her. My very favorite element of her character is her devotion to her craft (art) and the fact that, even when faced with certain death and losing her newfound love, she digs her heels in and refuses to let it go. She is sharp-tongued at times and even has a small capacity for cruelty, but this is tempered with a deep thread of compassion and understanding of human emotion and the inhuman mind. Isobel continues to be practical in her dealings with all the fair folk no matter how charming they may be, and she guards her humanity with a vengeance. One of my favorite components of this novel is the fact that Rogerson stays thoroughly true to each of her characters in every situation, and that their personalities, virtues, and faults don't magically disappear because they fall in love or enter into a new environment. Thankfully, I was not at all disappointed. The idea of a truly dangerous, perhaps unlikeable male hero (Rook) also held a certain appeal, as well as the idea of "craft" and this writer's take on the fair folk being disturbing, woodsy, thoroughly inhuman creatures. The art, itself, was brilliant in that it looks like a painting the likes of which our main character, Isobel, may have herself created. It reminded me of this old, Egyptian Cinderella story I read as a child and upon picking up the book, I was caught by the description. When I first saw the cover art on this novel, I fell in love.
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