One Elf Too Many by K.C. Warwick

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This is probably one of the funniest fantasy I have ever read: Amber is a young man in a quest but he doesn’t remember anything if not that he has to save someone somewhere; wandering from place to place he “collects” friends who apparently don’t want to leave him: Nockin, a dwarf who Amber saved from the captivity of an evil enchanter; Marta, a very motherly bodyguard, who Amber hired to protect him, but who takes the task very literally, protecting Amber’s virtue other than his body; Starlight, prince of the elves, who Amber inadvertently bounds to him with a wish (by the way, I forgot to mention that Amber has a very strange pet, a cauldron which provides him money at necessity and grants him wishes, even if Amber doesn’t know it); Adamant, Starlight’s former lover, who actually joins Amber more to “retrieve” Starlight than to really help Amber.

This is not strictly a romance, even if Starlight indeed will manage to debauch a bit Amber and Kevin, Marta’s son, will do somersaults at the heart of Amber. The main theme of this story is to give a fun intake on all the legends about witches, fairies, demons, goblins, elves and so on and so forth; when indeed Starlight and Kevin are alone and able to do something, it’s so fast and so light that you have to read two time the sentence (yes, the sentence, not more than that) to really understand if something happened.

Due to this lightness of the romance side, this is probably a story that will appeal to a wider target; it’s for sure a very light fantasy, it reminds me those movies which parody the “real thing”, but for my taste, I prefer this light version to the full immersion.

It’s true that our heroes will face various adventures, and some of them should be dangerous, but never once the author pushes on that button and in the end, it was always more a fairy tale of the sweet and innocent nature than the dark and heavy story. Plenty of laughs and clever characters are the main ingredients of this fantasy melting pot.

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