Name: Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales series #2)
Author: Olivia Atwater
Publisher: Orbit
Date published: July 2022
Genre: Fiction, adult, romance, historical, fantasy, fairy tales
Pages: 245
Rating: 5/5
Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea what he's doing.
Effie has most inconveniently fallen in love with the dashing Mr Benedict Ashbrooke. There's only one problem; Effie is a housemaid, and a housemaid cannot marry a gentleman. It seems that Effie is out of luck until she stumbles into the faerie realm of Lord Blackthorn, who is only too eager to help Effie win Mr Ashbrooke's heart. All he asks in return is that Effie sew ten thousand stitches onto his favourite jacket.
Effie has heard rumours about what happens to those who accept help from faeries, but life as a maid at Hartfield is so awful that she is willing to risk even her immortal soul for a chance at something better. Now, she has one hundred days - and ten thousand stitches - to make Mr Ashbrooke fall in love and propose... if Lord Blackthorn doesn't wreck things by accident, that is. For Effie's greatest obstacle might well prove to be Lord Blackthorn's overwhelmingly good intentions.
- From Goodreads.
Ten Thousand Stitches had the same heartwarming, whimsical, and humourous writing style as Half a Soul, with similar messaging that was both emotional, meaningful and hopeful while having a realistic, thoughtful, and sometimes quite serious undercurrent, all while still managing to have a different plot and distinct characters.
Lord Blackthorn was quite a unique character, who still to had the dangerous element of being a faerie while also being very sweet and loveable and endearing and I loved seeing him learn and change over the course of the story. His romance with Effie was so heartwarming and made me so happy to read.
Effie was a wonderful main character, I loved how she learnt more about herself and how she discovered the effect she had on people around her and how she could help them.
The author still writes female friendships very well, I loved Effie and Lydia's friendship and how they cared about each other so much.
I still found the world to be inventive and I enjoyed learning more about it and seeing it from a different perspective than we did in Half a Soul. It felt both realistic and whimsical, and all the descriptions were lovely to read, especially whenever we went into Faerie and saw the magical home of Lord Blackthorn.
I will definitely continue to read more books in this series and anything else the author writes. I really enjoy her writing style and everything I have read from her so far has just made me so delighted.
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