Modern retellings of the stories of King Orfeo and the Elphin Knight - which I'm not all too familiar with. When I read the synopsis of the story, I saw it was about a mother's devotion to bringing her daughter back from Death. I wanted this story to be more emotional and captivating than it was; it ended up being a really cheesy and boring story as most of the conflict in the book is resolved by, in my opinion, bad folk songs accompanied by uncomfortable artwork.

Fay, the main character + Mother, is not an engaging character whatsoever. I wish her relationship with Daisy was fleshed out more in the beginning, because through the whole story I felt as if everyone was one-dimensional, and I wasn't feeling the sense of urgency that I probably should have been feeling. I feel as if the story really spells everything out for the reader which would make sense if this is supposed to be for children (not too sure), but it is constantly repeating past events to the point where I could have probably skipped 50 pages and not feel like I've missed anything significant (maybe I did that...)

I blindly chose this off the library shelf because of the intriguing cover art; maybe I shouldn't be judging books by their cover. I guess fairytales aren't my cup of tea.