Split Worlds Between Two Thorns, Book 1, (Paperback)

from woakden

The subject of a Big Idea post over on Whatever. Newman doesn't actually describe the book at all, but this paragraph caught my attention: "At first it disguised itself as a short story about a shopkeeper and a woman returning one of his products; a faerie trapped in a bell jar. The woman thinks...

from waclements7

Really good. A little hard to get into the swing of the characters and the worlds at first, but after that, awesome. I like Cathy as a character, and am so curious to find out what happens with her and Will. I love the gargoyle, and the scene with Cathy and the gargoyle. The Arbiters are a really...

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Cathy comes from the Nether, the space between the Fae's Exilium and the human's Mundanus. While she had escaped the strict and hidebound society of the Nether, she's now being dragged back in to face an arranged marriage. Meanwhile, Max, an Arbitrator who prevents Fae from entangling with Mundan...

from rivkat

Introduces the Split Worlds, with Fae and magically-touched humans living in the Nether, unknown to the mundanes. There are four central characters: Cathy fled her physically and mentally abusive family, but a Fae lord catches her and forces her to return; Max is a soulless Arbiter trying to enfo...

from Punkfarie

The summary makes it seem that this book is only about Max and it's not. There are four main characters, the book takes us through four different points of view, the most of which seem to be Cathy, the “rebellious woman”. Max is an Arbiter, which is some kind of law enforcement? I'm not entirely ...