Adrift The Last Selkie Book 1 edition by Elizabeth A Reeves Ruth A Lewis Literature Fiction eBooks
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The Last Selkie.
Twenty years ago the Gates to Faerie, protecting mankind from the Fae, failed for only a few hours.
It was enough for a selkie maiden to escape through the barrier and fall in love with a young man who was dying. Her magical nature was enough to keep him alive a little longer.
Then she vanished, leaving her husband and young daughter behind, answering the inescapable call of the sea-- a call the selkie have always answered.
Now nineteen, Meg Tanner has lost her father to a malignant brain tumor. Grieving and alone in the world, she follows the road to Newfoundland.
There she meets Devin, the Guardian of the Gateway. He tells her that her mother didn't drown, but was a selkie who slipped through the gateway twenty years earlier, when Devin's father died, leaving the weight of the gateway on a ten year old's shoulders.
Because of this, Devin feels responsible for Meg. He is also afraid that his attraction to her is purely the attraction of a mortal to a creature of Faerie.
Meanwhile, Meg keeps dreaming of Faerie-- her mother, and one of the Sidhe-- an inhumanly beautiful Fae named Omyn, who is irresistable to her, but also frightens her.
Meg's mother wants her to come to Faerie-- a one way ticket, and is weaving the seal skin that will allow her to pass through the gate and leave behind mortality forever.
Meg is forced to choose between the man she has grown to love, the fascinating Omyn who ignites her blood, and the last family she has left.
Adrift The Last Selkie Book 1 edition by Elizabeth A Reeves Ruth A Lewis Literature Fiction eBooks
I quite enjoyed Adrift. It's kind of slow and not much happens until the end, but I liked it. Meg has just lost her father, and has nothing keeping her in her home town. After selling everything off, including her beloved pony, Meg gets into her car and just drives. She has no idea where she's going, or where she'll up. She just goes and winds up on a beach in Newfoundland. She has no idea how she got there or where she is exactly, so she's lucky that Devin finds her and brings her to his mother's house. There Meg finds the motherly love she's never known, and learns that her mother didn't drown when she was baby, and that she ended up in Trinity for a reason.Adrift is all about the selkie, who are a type of fae who shift into seals. Meg's mother, as she learns, was a selkie who could no longer resist the call of the sea and returned to Faerie. Now Meg is being called, but it's not safe for her to just plunge into the ocean. And she keeps having strange dreams. Some involve a young girl who she can sense is her mother, but she won't speak to her. The rest are of Omyn, a very handsome fae prince who wants her to join him. Meg is extremely tempted by these dreams, but she also feels the pull of her growing feelings for Devin. Although he's having trouble believing if they're real or a product of fae magic. But soon Meg will have to make a choice: build a life with Devin in the mortal realm, or head to Faerie to meet her mother and risk not being able to return.
Adrift does end on a cliffhanger. It's nothing huge and suspenseful, but it's obviously not the end of Meg's story. I'm very intrigued about how her tale is developing, so I'll certainly be picking up the sequel eventually. I also read the prequel, Avow, before this one, which I found interesting. But I do think the six page short would have made a better prologue to Adrift than its own story as it shows how Meg's parents met.
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Adrift The Last Selkie Book 1 edition by Elizabeth A Reeves Ruth A Lewis Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Meg's father has died of cancer, and she is left completely alone. She has no real friends, and no other family. Her mother died shortly after she was born. So after selling a few things off she gets in her car and just drives. She wants to leave her town in Missouri behind. Her money runs out in the small town of Trinity, Newfoundland. Trinity is on the Canadian coast, and Meg doesn't know why she ended up there. It's almost like she was drawn there.
She walks down to the sea and jumps in. But she can't swim, and she thinks she drowns. The next day she wakes up in a small cottage in what she believes to be heaven. There is a woman with her, spinning yarn. She tries to talk to the woman, but gets no response. Soon a young man shows up. Devin tells her she really doesn't want to be in that cottage. She explains she has no place to go, and she has no money. Devin says she can stay with him and his mother for a while.
She meets Maura, Devin's mother. Maura says she is glad to have her, because it's another pair of hands in the house. Maura leads a minimalist lifestyle. She raises her own food, and weaves her own carpets and cloth. Meg is happy to help out in the garden, and finds she really likes it. She also grooms the horses Maura owns. She is becoming a part of the family.
Then Devin drops a bombshell on her. He explains that the woman spinning yarn was actually Meg's mother. She is very much alive. And she is a selkie. A selkie is commonly called a mermaid today. They are irresistibly drawn to the sea. Meg's mother didn't drown, as her father had told her. Her mother just returned to the sea, as selkies will. And Devin explains that since Meg's Mom was a selkie, Meg has selkie blood in her. Which was why she was drawn to the seacoast. And it is why Meg finds the water very attractive. Her father had never taken Meg to the coast, because he knew she was a selkie, and she may have returned to the water.
Meg doesn't believe this at first. But as Devin and Maura explain it further it begins to make sense. She starts to have dreams about supernatural creatures. Her mother, of course, and a man name Omyn. Omyn is a Sidhe, a leader among the supernatural. She tells Devin about the dreams, and he explains what is going on. There is a gate in Trinity. This gate separates the plane where humans live from the plane where the supernatural beings live. The gate must remain closed. If it opens, the supernatural beings would flood through to the earth side and wreak havoc. Devin further explains that since the gate is so close Omyn has sensed that Meg, a selkie, is on the other side of the gate. He can enter her dreams, and is going to try to convince her to go through the gate to the land of Faerie, where the supernaturals live. Devin also says he has some of the Old Magic in him, and he is the gatekeeper. It is his job to make sure the gate is always closed.
Meg tries to absorb all this information. Meanwhile she has an unnatural attraction to the sea. She is a selkie, after all. But whenever she tries to enter the ocean Devin always stops her. If she ever enters the water completely she is probably not coming back. She will go to Faerie, and live there as a selkie.
Over time Meg falls in love with Devin. But she also falls in love with Omyn. And she wants to know her mother, who lives in Faerie. So Meg is torn. Should she stay on the earth side and try to make a life with Devin, a man she loves? Or should she cross over, where her mother and Omyn await her? She is very conflicted, and there doesn't seem to be a good answer. She can have one side or the other, but not both. Which will she ultimately pick?
Adrift is a solid book, and fun to read. The characters are well developed, and you will get to liking them. You'll even like Omyn, who is really the protagonist. The plot is well laid out, and fairly straight. There aren't really many twists and turns to it. If you enjoy books with some paranormal content this is a book you definitely must read. Highly recommended.
Adrift (The Last Selkie, Book One) by Elizabeth A. Reeves
Disclaimer I received a free e-copy of this book one , then decided to review it.
Warning There are spoilers and hints of spoilers in this review.
Meg is left bereft and alone when her father dies of cancer. After giving away or selling everything of value, she gets in a car and heads in random direction. After driving until she's out of money, she finds herself in Newfoundland, on the coast. The sea calls to her, and Meg gives herself to it. When she wakes, she's in a cottage with a strange woman. Without speaking, the woman disappears. That is just the start of the weirdness that becomes normal for Meg.
This book deals heavily with the Fae. I always approach those books with trepidation, because it's so easy to make the Fae into humans with pretty magic, when the old legends are so different. I always wonder which I'm getting when I start reading. I shouldn't have worried in this case, because the Fae in Reeve's story are those dark creatures of legend. They are presented as wonderfully not-human--not evil, just not us. The world is richly described, with care given to immerse the reader in the world. I found the characters interesting, even the ones we only catch glimpses of.
As for the negative, I found only a few typos, nothing too glaring. The story itself certainly didn't put me off. The only real "negative" was the ending, as in, the book ended! The end was bittersweet and set with a cliffhanger, yet was written in such a way that I felt like the story being told in Adrift (a very apt title, I'll add) was finished, and Meg was getting ready for a new adventure.
I dithered between four and five stars on this. The final question was, "Would I read this story again?" When I answered yes, I felt that it has the fifth star in my book.
I quite enjoyed Adrift. It's kind of slow and not much happens until the end, but I liked it. Meg has just lost her father, and has nothing keeping her in her home town. After selling everything off, including her beloved pony, Meg gets into her car and just drives. She has no idea where she's going, or where she'll up. She just goes and winds up on a beach in Newfoundland. She has no idea how she got there or where she is exactly, so she's lucky that Devin finds her and brings her to his mother's house. There Meg finds the motherly love she's never known, and learns that her mother didn't drown when she was baby, and that she ended up in Trinity for a reason.
Adrift is all about the selkie, who are a type of fae who shift into seals. Meg's mother, as she learns, was a selkie who could no longer resist the call of the sea and returned to Faerie. Now Meg is being called, but it's not safe for her to just plunge into the ocean. And she keeps having strange dreams. Some involve a young girl who she can sense is her mother, but she won't speak to her. The rest are of Omyn, a very handsome fae prince who wants her to join him. Meg is extremely tempted by these dreams, but she also feels the pull of her growing feelings for Devin. Although he's having trouble believing if they're real or a product of fae magic. But soon Meg will have to make a choice build a life with Devin in the mortal realm, or head to Faerie to meet her mother and risk not being able to return.
Adrift does end on a cliffhanger. It's nothing huge and suspenseful, but it's obviously not the end of Meg's story. I'm very intrigued about how her tale is developing, so I'll certainly be picking up the sequel eventually. I also read the prequel, Avow, before this one, which I found interesting. But I do think the six page short would have made a better prologue to Adrift than its own story as it shows how Meg's parents met.
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