Sixteen year old Anya enjoys her freedom and traveling to the human realm. When she is called back from her travels and told her aunt, the Queen of the Faire Realm of Chrior, needs to speak with her she never expects to learn that the queen is dying. The giant Redwood has prophesied her death and there isn't much time. Queen Ubiqua chooses Anya as her heir, bypassing Anya's cousin Illumina (who is unfit to rule) and the Queen's own son, Zabriel, who vanished into the human realm. Anya has no desire to rule. She doesn't want to be tied down by the responsibility. She knows that Illumina cannot rule. Her hate of humans will lead to another war between the Fae and humans. Zabriel must be found. He is the true heir and Anya will stop at nothing to bring him home. 
 This book is only for the very patient reader. It's a very slow and rambling story. It's focus is really the journey that Anya takes rather than the action. Despite being told in the first person, the story is very emotionally detached. I never really felt like I was right there in the action, but watching it from above. I did enjoy the fact that the majority of the story is about a duo of female adventures who get out of their own scrapes without needing a hero to swoop in. It's light on romance, although a love triangle is clearly being set up. But overall, this would have been a DNF for me if I didn't need to always see books to the end. 
 Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. 
 Publication Date: January 28, 2014