An Enchantment of Ravens
- 250
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“An Enchantment of Ravens” is a short, fast fairy-tale romance between a portrait painter and a prince of the fair folk. Some readers enjoy the couple and a few real surprises along the way. Others find the prose over-decorated and the plot thin, with the pair shuttled from one setting to the next and the world only sketched. Best for fae-romance fans who come for mood and feeling.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
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. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes—a weakness that could cost him his life. Furious, Rook spirits her away to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. But something is seriously wrong in his world, and they are attacked from every side. 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. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. 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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 250 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 9 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 241 | 96% |
Frequently asked
What age is An Enchantment of Ravens for?
An Enchantment of Ravens sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 250 pages — shorter than 97% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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