A Crown So Silver, the second installment in the Fair Folk series by Lyra Selene (A Feather So Black), continues the breathtakingly adventurous and sexy story of a young woman caught between the worlds of humans and the Folk.
Fia was supposed to die on the night of the Ember Moon. Instead, she was reborn and inherited a lost Folk artifact, the Treasure of the Sept of Antlers, which results in a "riot of new, powerful magic roaring through [her]." Fia's husband, the devastatingly gorgeous Folk lord Irian, adores her, but his fear for her manifests in overprotective tendencies that Fia finds frustrating. She's spoiling for battle against her sister, Eala, who has seized control of the gates to the human world. Irian suggests they journey to the Silver Isle, a wintry island ruled by a smith-king. Fia agrees, believing they will ask the king to reforge the remaining lost Treasures to help them defeat Eala. But after they reach the island, Irian instead asks the smith-king to destroy the existing Treasures. A dangerous magical tournament, Eala's own arrival to the Silver Isle, and an explosive secret will test Fia and Irian's love, win them new allies, and change the struggle for the Folk world in unimaginable ways.
In A Crown So Silver, Selene expands her lush fantasy setting, bumps the romance from steamy to scalding, and brings new friends and enemies into Fia's path. The prose remains as dreamy and poetic as in the first book, and the ending sets up a dramatic twist that will leave readers clamoring to get their hands on the next volume. --Jaclyn Fulwood, blogger at Infinite Reads