Book Review: The Winding Road Between
The Winding Road Between by Melody Taylor
4 stars
Category: New Adult
Note: Spin-off to A Dark and Twisting Road
Summary: After being raised by his fae father in the realm of Faerie, this is Malthiar’s coming-of-age story as he goes to the human realm to meet the mother who rejected him as a child. But he chickens out and wanders from place to place hooking up with various girls and trying to get his questions about human life answered.
Comments: I loved Malthiar in the earlier book with his awkward oddness. Honestly, I had been expecting more of a Harold and Kumar road trip, seeing the world, taking in the sights, and having hilarious awkward encounters while coming-of-age. And he does go to some far-flung places where he tries to figure out what makes humans human and how the faeries differ from them and how he overlaps the two. Where I adored the first book with Alexa having to go to the faerie realm to rescue her friend and the other encounters she had in her past which was thrilling with the dangers and new fantastical things around every corner. This one, however, felt very light on the fantasy with Malthiar spending the bulk of the time in the human world, drifting lazily through life as if he had all the time in the world (which as a mostly immortal being he did have). I was honestly hoping for more of him meeting Alexa, to really explain their history since it sounded like she had seen him on numerous occasions, but she’s only in for a single brief cameo scene (which feels like it contradicts the earlier book). Honestly, I tired quickly of his focus on hooking up with girls and sleeping with women (which felt like it contradicted the earlier book since from his awkwardness, he seemed like he was virgin in his hesitant-ness), especially since he never seemed all that attached. I was also irritated with his constantly putting off meeting his mother for years and years, passing by her on the street numerous times, etc. So, as he learns to blend in with human society, it made him like any other human character living in the human world, and I just overall prefer more actual connection and fantasy with the books I read. And I had really been hoping for an explanation on his outdated white poet shirts he wore constantly in the first book.
4 stars
Category: New Adult
Note: Spin-off to A Dark and Twisting Road
Summary: After being raised by his fae father in the realm of Faerie, this is Malthiar’s coming-of-age story as he goes to the human realm to meet the mother who rejected him as a child. But he chickens out and wanders from place to place hooking up with various girls and trying to get his questions about human life answered.
Comments: I loved Malthiar in the earlier book with his awkward oddness. Honestly, I had been expecting more of a Harold and Kumar road trip, seeing the world, taking in the sights, and having hilarious awkward encounters while coming-of-age. And he does go to some far-flung places where he tries to figure out what makes humans human and how the faeries differ from them and how he overlaps the two. Where I adored the first book with Alexa having to go to the faerie realm to rescue her friend and the other encounters she had in her past which was thrilling with the dangers and new fantastical things around every corner. This one, however, felt very light on the fantasy with Malthiar spending the bulk of the time in the human world, drifting lazily through life as if he had all the time in the world (which as a mostly immortal being he did have). I was honestly hoping for more of him meeting Alexa, to really explain their history since it sounded like she had seen him on numerous occasions, but she’s only in for a single brief cameo scene (which feels like it contradicts the earlier book). Honestly, I tired quickly of his focus on hooking up with girls and sleeping with women (which felt like it contradicted the earlier book since from his awkwardness, he seemed like he was virgin in his hesitant-ness), especially since he never seemed all that attached. I was also irritated with his constantly putting off meeting his mother for years and years, passing by her on the street numerous times, etc. So, as he learns to blend in with human society, it made him like any other human character living in the human world, and I just overall prefer more actual connection and fantasy with the books I read. And I had really been hoping for an explanation on his outdated white poet shirts he wore constantly in the first book.
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