{"id":13911,"date":"2023-05-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13911"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:16:04","slug":"dare-she-travel-road-of-the-lost-into-lands-of-fae-by-nafiza-azad-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13911","title":{"rendered":"Dare she travel ROAD OF THE LOST into lands of fae? by Nafiza Azad (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13943\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=13943\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/road-of-the-lost-9781534484993_xlg.jpg?fit=594%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"594,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"road-of-the-lost-9781534484993_xlg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/road-of-the-lost-9781534484993_xlg.jpg?fit=594%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/road-of-the-lost-9781534484993_xlg.jpg?resize=323%2C490&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"book cover of Road of the Lost, by Nafiza Azad. Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books | recommended on BooksYALove.com\" class=\"wp-image-13943\" width=\"323\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/road-of-the-lost-9781534484993_xlg.jpg?w=594&amp;ssl=1 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/road-of-the-lost-9781534484993_xlg.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/road-of-the-lost-9781534484993_xlg.jpg?resize=99%2C150&amp;ssl=1 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Helping a girl trapped as a stone statue cracks Croi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/faeriepedia.weebly.com\/glamour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">glamour<\/a>, making the brownie visible to courtiers in the human palace!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 17 year old flees back to her guardian&#8217;s home in the Wilde Forest, and the Hag gives her two books about the fae &#8211; why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Croi, who isn&#8217;t a brownie after all, cannot resist the summoning spell taking her away from the Forest to the Otherworld of fae and dryad and pixie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the other half of herself now awakened (and talking so much in her mind), Croi won&#8217;t be completely alone. Perhaps she&#8217;ll meet the young man Iriel who invades her dreams as he searches for the Forever King&#8217;s descendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she travels in strange lands whose magick is dwindling, Croi meets a dryad with a desperate request, a catkin seeking his kidnapped brothers, a fire princess leading a rebel army, and a pixie with attitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who sent Croi to the Wilde Forest as a child? <br>Why is this summoning spell calling her into the Otherworld? <br>What is Iriel&#8217;s part in all this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many want the high fae Robber Queen to lose her power over the Otherworld at the upcoming Saol ceremony &#8211; the battle is on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the author of <em>The Candle and the Wind<\/em>,  recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10669\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"10669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which being of legend would you want to meet?<br>**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Book info: Road of the Lost \/ Nafiza Azad. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2022. [<a href=\"https:\/\/nafizaazad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">author site<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Road-of-the-Lost\/Nafiza-Azad\/9781534484993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping a girl trapped as a stone statue cracks Croi&#8217;s glamour, making the brownie visible to courtiers in the human palace! The 17 year old flees back to her guardian&#8217;s home in the Wilde Forest, and the Hag gives her two books about the fae &#8211; why? Croi, who isn&#8217;t a brownie after all, cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,77,19,51],"tags":[90,22,7,4,11,5,37,16,18,71,38,184,277,31,15,217,21,35,33,6,28,59],"class_list":["post-13911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairy-tales","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-mystery","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-kidnapping","tag-magic","tag-mothers","tag-myth","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-royalty","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-travel","tag-villains","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13945,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}