Review:
Morgan Locke, a university student studying folklore, has been hiding a mysterious, debilitating illness from everyone but his family his whole life. He's been reasonably successful about it thus far, but his seizures and nausea are becoming more frequent and ill-timed. It isn't contagious, but he's still worried it will cost him his friends, including Ivy, a fellow student on whom he has a bit of a crush.
Then two little creatures called genets, Kelu and Almond, show up at his home and tell him that he's a long-lost elven prince. To Morgan, elves are beings of folklore, but then again the genets shouldn't be real either, and there they are. In the hope of finding a cure for his illness, Morgan goes with Kelu and Almond and finds himself in a dangerous world of elves who see everyone else as beneath them and little more than slaves.
I wouldn't really say that this was an enjoyable book - there were too many instances of Morgan dealing with the horrible symptoms of his chronic illness, and the elvish world was, in general, too awful, filled with slavery, pain, and torture - but it was at least interesting. There were, thankfully, a few elves here and there who weren't completely terrible, and Morgan eventually found a few allies.
While most of Morgan's human friends seemed decent enough, I wasn't impressed by Ivy at all. From what I can remember, the last time Morgan saw her in this book was just before he'd been overtaken by seizures and vomiting. When he was conscious again, she was nowhere to be found, which I took to mean that she'd abandoned him to potentially die in a puddle of his own vomit. Granted, he hadn't told her yet that he had a chronic illness, but you don't just leave a friend who's in that kind of condition to fend for themselves. If Morgan does end up paired off with someone, hopefully it's not her.
All in all, this isn't shaping up to be one of my more beloved of Hogarth's series, but I'm at least interested to see where things go.
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