{"id":88,"date":"2012-06-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2015-08-13T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:38:28","slug":"faerie-ring-by-kiki-hamilton-fiction-royalty-orphans-human-and-fae-a-treaty-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Faerie Ring, by Kiki Hamilton (book review) – royalty, orphans, human and fae, a treaty in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>“Long live the Queen!”
\nwe hear during this Diamond Jubilee season<\/a> for Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

Fascination with royalty is nothing new. Queen Victoria called Buckingham Palace<\/a> home well over a century ago, celebrating her Diamond Jubilee<\/a> in 1897.<\/p>\n

Who’s to say that Prince Leopold<\/a> didn’t borrow a particular ring from his mother’s strongbox to show his royal brother Arthur? Or that certain well-dressed ladies at the masquerade ball<\/a> at the Palace were not exactly who they seemed… or even as human as they appeared to be?<\/p>\n

Commoners and royalty, the calm Seelie Court of Faerie opposed by the Unseelie Court<\/a> determined to take back the world from humans… all bound up in the truce of The Faerie Ring<\/i>. This first book in the series by Kiki Hamilton is an exciting read. Now, to wait for the October 2012 publication of book two, The Torn Wing<\/i> !
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: The Faerie Ring \/ Kiki Hamilton. Tor Teen, 2011. [author’s website<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] \u00a0\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>:\u00a0 Not many orphans find themselves accidentally inside Buckingham Palace; only Tiki could accidentally find a gold ring as she escaped. The strange words of its inscription remind her of a childhood rhyme, but carry a violent oath about a treaty broken. Perhaps that\u2019s why the London slum shadows now fill with winged beings trying to steal the ring back\u2026<\/p>\n

Tiki only picks pockets to keep her small family of other orphans alive in 1871\u2019s brutal winter cold, hidden in an abandoned shop near Charing Cross Station. After her father and mother died of the fever, Tiki went to live with her aunt and uncle, whose leering grabs sent the young teen fleeing.<\/p>\n

Fellow thief Rieker warns her of danger \u2013 from the Queen\u2019s agents and from the winged ones she\u2019s spotted. For the ring that Tiki found is more valuable than mere gold \u2013 it\u2019s the treaty between Faerie and the mortal world. If it is out of Queen Victoria\u2019s possession, then the separation between the two realms can be crossed over. As disasters begin to rock the human world and the Queen falls ill, reward posters about the gold ring appear. Tiki is too clever to directly return it and starts to formulate a plan that could get the orphans off the streets.<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t anyone else see the faeries but Tiki and Rieker?
\nWhy does the ring\u2019s inscription sound so familiar?
\nWill Prince Leopold discover her secret before she can return the ring without endangering the orphan children she has sworn to protect?
\nAnd who exactly is Rieker anyway?<\/p>\n

This thrilling debut novel takes readers from the coal-smoky backstreets of Victorian London to the palatial halls of royalty as warring factions of Faerie take advantage of the ring\u2019s absence to enter England for good and for evil.\u00a0 (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Long live the Queen!” we hear during this Diamond Jubilee season for Elizabeth II. Fascination with royalty is nothing new. Queen Victoria called Buckingham Palace home well over a century ago, celebrating her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Who’s to say that Prince Leopold didn’t borrow a particular ring from his mother’s strongbox to show his […]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,19,50,30,51,41],"tags":[90,22,4,11,20,5,70,37,16,32,18,44,43,71,39,12,15,217,21,35,33,3,129,8],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-historical","category-legends","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-refugees","tag-relationships","tag-royalty","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-treasure","tag-us-author"],"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\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}