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Summary: Stevie, a museum curator, has her life turned upside down when a friend sends her a piece of art to display and then vanishes. Leaving behind a vaguely suicidal note, Daniel leaves England without any clue to where he has gone or if he is okay. In Stevie’s attempt to locate Daniel, she runs into a very strange and attractive man, Mist, who is also looking for Daniel in order to track down his brother, Rufus. Mist believes Rufus may be the person who stole Daniel away.

My Thoughts:

So yea, this was 10 times better than the previous Aetherial Tales book. Sooo wonderful. We have a nice new character named Stevie. After being plagued by hallucinations for as long as she can remember, which isn’t very long as a large chuck of her life is missing, she learns that there might be a reason for all her problems. She might be an Aetherial. Through her great efforts to look for an old college friend, Daniel, she learns much more about herself in the process. Her character answers the questions that started to form in the first book, when Rosie’s supposedly human friend marries into the family and discovers her Aetherial nature.

Then, there is Mist, who (yay!) has finally appeared. Mist is after Rufus and is trying to avenge all the torment Rufus inflicted on him. We learn more about his and Rufus’s lives together before Mist was killed. It’s wonderful how this book builds upon Midsummer Night and Elfland. We get to see Lucas, Rosie, and Sam again! I love how everything is incorporated into the book. It digs deeper into the great Aetherial cities that used to exist on Earth, it provides more insight into the whole Albin struggle, and it has a near apocalyptic ending. Pretty much anything you were wondering about is answered in this last book.

Warrington builds up the suspense so wonderfully in the book. We have Rufus who doesn’t know what Aurata is up to, Mist who thinks Rufus is to blame for everything, and Stevie who is really just trying to save Daniel from whatever evil has him. As a reader, you see them struggling to connect the dots and just waiting for everything to blow up in someone’s face. The last reveal and the way the resulting conflict ends were surprising (and a good way) but they completely made sense and tied up ending nicely.

Bottom Line: It was the perfect conclusion to the Aetherial Tales. You get to see all the characters you loved from Elfland, and the plot is super intense.


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Grail of the Summer Stars Aetherial Tales Freda Warrington 9780765318718 Books Reviews

While we like Elfland better, the Grail of the Summer Stars ties together both Elfland and Midsummer Night. It reads a little slowly, but at the same time that may be because we like to take it a bit at a time, savoring it. Freda Warrington speaks to our hearts and seems to understand us, and our own inner understanding of ours'elves, more than nearly anyone else writing today. It is as though she is writing about our own lives, in a rather more dramatic and the world may end at any moment fashion. The world is coming to a huge crisis point but we expect these elves will be back in Faerie before the pollution really hits the fan. At least we hope so. And if not, we will, like the characters in this book, come back again and attempt to shape the ideas of Man toward more harmonious living once more.

The Silver Elves authors of The Elven Way The Magical Path of the Shining Ones
Grail of the Summer Stars is the third in Freda Warrington's Aetherial Tales series, following Elfland and Midsummer Night. Each novel can stand alone, though they have some overlapping plotlines and characters, such that each novel will be more meaningful and resonant if you've read the others. Grail of the Summer Stars has more overlapping elements than either of the two previous books and is connected more strongly to each of them than they are to each other.

Warrington introduces us to Stevie Silverwood, a metalworking artist and museum curator who has always been a little odd, seeing things no one else could see -- and whose past before age 15 is a mystery even to herself. Her quiet life is disrupted when her old college sweetheart, Daniel, sends her a triptych of fantastic paintings along with a cryptic note, and goes missing. Her path soon crosses with that of Mistangamesh, an Aetherial man whom we met in Midsummer Night. He is hunting for his brother, Rufus, intending to kill him. Their subsequent search for Daniel and for the paintings' meaning draws them into a millennia-old mystery involving Mist's family and a megalomaniacal plot that could destroy both the Earth and the Spiral.

Like the previous Aetherial Tales novels, Grail of the Summer Stars features beautiful prose and themes of finding and being true to oneself, of love, of troubled family relationships, of art as a manifestation of magic and as a form of magic in itself. Warrington expands on another corner of her Aetherial world here, and it's hard to imagine that there's any end to her treasure trove of ideas. The pace is faster this time out; while there is an epic, sweeping past behind this novel's plot, there is a race-against-time feel to the modern-day action, and the book is the shortest of the series (so far).

Warrington's plotting is tight and nothing is wasted. One is continually surprised, while reading Grail of the Summer Stars, as what seemed like throwaway details come back to make total sense and to tie in with the central plot. This is true both of elements introduced in this novel and of threads from the previous two; as mentioned above, material from the earlier books is woven into this one, often in surprising ways.

I highly recommend the entire series to anyone looking for an inventive fantasy world that intersects with our own, for intricate plotting, and for characters you will feel for and feel like you know personally. Warrington could theoretically stop here and have a satisfying trilogy, but I hope she has many more Aetherial Tales to tell. Her universe is certainly rich enough to contain them.
Summary Stevie, a museum curator, has her life turned upside down when a friend sends her a piece of art to display and then vanishes. Leaving behind a vaguely suicidal note, Daniel leaves England without any clue to where he has gone or if he is okay. In Stevie’s attempt to locate Daniel, she runs into a very strange and attractive man, Mist, who is also looking for Daniel in order to track down his brother, Rufus. Mist believes Rufus may be the person who stole Daniel away.

My Thoughts

So yea, this was 10 times better than the previous Aetherial Tales book. Sooo wonderful. We have a nice new character named Stevie. After being plagued by hallucinations for as long as she can remember, which isn’t very long as a large chuck of her life is missing, she learns that there might be a reason for all her problems. She might be an Aetherial. Through her great efforts to look for an old college friend, Daniel, she learns much more about herself in the process. Her character answers the questions that started to form in the first book, when Rosie’s supposedly human friend marries into the family and discovers her Aetherial nature.

Then, there is Mist, who (yay!) has finally appeared. Mist is after Rufus and is trying to avenge all the torment Rufus inflicted on him. We learn more about his and Rufus’s lives together before Mist was killed. It’s wonderful how this book builds upon Midsummer Night and Elfland. We get to see Lucas, Rosie, and Sam again! I love how everything is incorporated into the book. It digs deeper into the great Aetherial cities that used to exist on Earth, it provides more insight into the whole Albin struggle, and it has a near apocalyptic ending. Pretty much anything you were wondering about is answered in this last book.

Warrington builds up the suspense so wonderfully in the book. We have Rufus who doesn’t know what Aurata is up to, Mist who thinks Rufus is to blame for everything, and Stevie who is really just trying to save Daniel from whatever evil has him. As a reader, you see them struggling to connect the dots and just waiting for everything to blow up in someone’s face. The last reveal and the way the resulting conflict ends were surprising (and a good way) but they completely made sense and tied up ending nicely.

Bottom Line It was the perfect conclusion to the Aetherial Tales. You get to see all the characters you loved from Elfland, and the plot is super intense.