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  • The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

  • By: H. G. Parry
  • Narrated by: Melissa Vaughan
  • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

By: H. G. Parry
Narrated by: Melissa Vaughan
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From the author of The Magician's Daughter comes The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a mythic, magical tale full of secret scholarship, faerie curses, and the deadliest spells of all—the ones that friends cast on each other.

All they needed to break the world was a door, and someone to open it.

Camford, 1920. Gilded and glittering, England's secret magical academy is no place for Clover, a commoner with neither connections nor magical blood. She tells herself she has fought her way there only to find a cure for her brother Matthew, one of the few survivors of a faerie attack on the battlefields of WWI which left the doors to faerie country sealed, the study of its magic banned, and its victims cursed.

But when Clover catches the eye of golden boy Alden Lennox-Fontaine and his friends, doors that were previously closed to her are flung wide open, and she soon finds herself enmeshed in the seductive world of the country's magical aristocrats. The summer she spends in Alden’s orbit leaves a fateful mark: months of joyous friendship and mutual study come crashing down when experiments go awry, and old secrets are unearthed.

Years later, when the faerie seals break, Clover knows it’s because of what they did. And she knows that she must seek the help of people she once called friends—and now doesn’t quite know what to call—if there’s any hope of saving the world as they know it.

©2024 H. G. Parry (P)2024 Redhook
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Critic reviews

“By turns wondrous, haunting, and mysterious, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door asks big questions and delivers all the right answers. This book is historical fantasy at its finest."—Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul
"Part historical fantasy, part campus novel, and entirely magical, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door is easily my favorite read of this year. Parry has crafted an unputdownable, bittersweet tale about thorny love, belonging, and what it means to truly fix a broken world." —Allison Saft, New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic
"A brilliant story of magic and scholarship and ambition. Of sacrifices made to keep loved ones safe, and a secret world that is wilder and stranger and more complicated than even those living in it know. This is a marvelous, thought-provoking, captivating novel, and I loved it completely." —Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians
"The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door is thoughtfully written and thoroughly enthralling. H.G. Parry illuminates the pleasures and perils of knowledge—and friendship—in a voice that is exquisite and empathetic to the very end." —Sylvie Cathrall, author of A Letter to the Luminous Deep
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door immerses readers in a richly imagined world of magical spells and scholarly intrigue. As always, H.G. Parry blends fantasy, history, thought-provoking ideas, and brilliantly enjoyable prose.”—Rowenna Miller, author of The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

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I LOVED THIS SO MUCH!

My second book by this author and let me tell you I knew I was going to enjoy the story but I wasn’t expecting to love it so much a 2024 top favorite for sure.

I’ll say this is a very slow burn story but so much happened and it’s so twisty o just could put it down so sad is over can’t wait for a re-read.

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