This a standalone fantasy about Isobel, a portrait artist, who specializes in painting the fair folk. I had it between An Enchantment of Ravens and A Sorcery of Thorns, and decided to read the earlier release first. Before trying the new novel, I wanted to read her earlier novels. Margaret Rogerson recently came back on my radar as I have seen a lot of hype for her newest release, Vespertine. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. With Isobel and Rook depending on each other for survival, their alliance blossoms into trust, then love-and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws.

But something is seriously wrong in his world, and they are attacked from every side.

She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could cost him his life.įurious, Rook spirits her away to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. Isobel is an artistic prodigy with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust.

An enchantment of ravens series