Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com

One day, Linden's summoned by the dying faery queen, who tells her that she might be their only hope for survival in the near future. Without their magic, the faeries are slowly dying, and they have been for years.

There's only forty-something faeries left in the sacred oak, and very little magic remains.

When Linden visits a faery friend (Knife from SPELL HUNTER), she comes into contact with a human boy. Timothy's having trouble fitting in at school More...

REVIEW
The Faery Rebels series is addicting. Wayfarer takes place 15 years after Spell Hunter and the Oak is in great danger. A dying queen leaves the faeries powerless and vulnerable.
A tough little faery named Linden sets out to find the missing powers. Even though Linden was only fifteen, the entire Oak was counting on her.
A human named Timothy, who is unsure of himself, becomes Linden’s partner. Over time, Timothy gains confidence and learns to trust the faeries. His transformation was one o More...

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Linden’s home and safety have been compromised. Her Queen can no longer keep her safe and her Foster mother is powerless to help. So what can she do?

She must rely on Timothy, a teen-aged boy who has been suspended from school for fighting, to guide her through the dangerous streets of London and help her to find someone to restore magic to her tribe.

Timothy is the son of Christian Missionaries who are living in Uganda. He has been sent back to London to attend school, but he mi More...

The faeries of the Oak are dying. Their home and the glamours on it are falling apart, and the faeries are left unable to defend themselves, as their magic was stolen many years ago. The dying queen Amaryllis gives half her magic to a young faery named Linden and charges her with finding help, for which Linden will have to venture out into the human world for the first time.

Linden teams up with a conflicted human boy, Timothy, and the two of them discover the Oakenfolk aren't the only faeries in More...

A Book review of Wayfarer by R.J Anderson
By Shehreen, Grade7, Yangon International School
Many girls dream of being a princess or a fairy. No one considers about the conflicts
they might face. Everything cannot be puffed away by pixie dust. When a quest reveals,
the problem is too dangerous to ignore or eliminate, will she be able to succeed? Will
she able to save her beloved ones before it’s too late? R.J Anderson answers these
questions in his novel Wayfarer. Anderson creates an extraordinary More...

I started this book off not really knowing what it was about. Because I won this book (thanks Saundra Mitchell!) I didn’t bother to read the jacket summary over before I started it. I read it once, but my memory fades really easily…

At once though, I liked Timothy. Even though this is a book about faeries and magic, he seemed real to me. Don’t get me wrong, I love supernatural hot guys in books, but Timothy was different. He was human, but his thoughts and actions were down-to-earth. He wasn’t li More...

In the beginning I was hesitant is reading this book because honestly, there are so many fairy books out there these days. I just wondered if this book would be able to step away from there and shine in its own light. I’m happy to report that it did!

Anderson created such a magical world in the Oackenfolk’s home and in Britain as well. Anderson’s fairy world is one that I have never read about and that makes it all the better. Linden is an amazing character, very well developed and very lovable. More...

Reason for Reading: Next in the series.

Wayfarer continues the story started in Spell Hunter (Knife UK). The publisher has upgraded the recommended age range to YA which I find more appropriate, though this book is tamer than the first. The story however, if very detailed and intricate.

The entire cast of book 1 returns, including Knife and Paul but this time the main characters are Linden and Paul's nephew, Timothy. Now that the Queen is on her deathbed it is time to find the other faeries and se More...

A sweet, charming tale filled with Faeries, faith and hope. (very close to Aprilynne Pike’s blurb on the cover, but it’s true!)

Linden is a tree faery, part of the Oakenfolk. Despite her young age she is chosen by the Queen to find a way to restore magic to the Oakenfolk. In her search for the lost magic she finds Timothy and together they find adventure, understanding and learn a lot about themselves along the way.

This really is a charming story, and that is mostly due to Linden, Timothy and the More...

Like the first in the Faery Rebels series, Wayfarer was a fantastic adventure. Fourteen years after the end of Spell Hunter, we begin with a 14-year-old Linden, and with the immediate declaration that Queen Amaryllis is dying. Linden is given half of the Queen's magic, and told that she is her people's last hope. Sent on a quest to find a way to restore her people's magic, Linden befriends a human named Timothy and travels far from home in search of help. We meet many more faeries, not all of wh More...

Linden, a fifteen-year-old faery, has always lived in the Oak with her fellow faeries. But when the faeries of Oakenwyld are threatened with extinction, Linden is trusted with the last of their magic to go out into the human world to try and find faeries to help the Oak survive. Timothy has just been suspended from school and is staying at the house next to the Oak. Two worlds collide when the two teenagers meet and begin a race throughout England to find a cure for Linden’s people.

I thought th More...

Rebel is the sequel to Knife and is written by R J Anderson. The main character has changed and is now Linden, the young, sort-of daughter of Knife and Wink.
Despite the change of storyteller, we still see how Knife and Paul's relationship continues and how they are both doing.
Rebel is written from two different perspectives: Linden and Timothy's. Timothy Sinclair is a human boy who lives in Uganda. He's a missionary's son but finds it hard to embrace his religion.
At the beginning of the novel, T More...

This time I'll rate it 5 FLAT!

Damn! This book was beyond my expectations! The excitement in reading the book is superbly strong! I could just imagine myself holding the third book now, Arrow :)).

I love the way how each character was presented in the story (yet again). Especially Knife, she was still so much as her character when she was in the first book but more mature. No wonder she was still the guardian of the oak for anyone else couldn't match her without using their magic. Even the proud More...

The fairies from the Oak have come a long way. I'm almost amazed at everything that's happened in this series so far.

Unlike the first book, this story took place mostly in the human world. I was excited when Knife (Peri) and Paul were first mentioned in this book. From the summary it sounded like they weren't going to be in this book at all. However, even though they didn't take starring roles they were there throughout the book.

I just want to say, I really love Peri. She's pretty awesome. Ther More...

I'm about to admit something astounding, okay maybe not that astounding, but some of you might think so. The truth is I have never read a faery book before (at least not that I remember). I've read vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, angels, demons, but not faeries. So, Wayfarer is my first exposure to this paranormal entity.

I found the faery world depicted in this book to be fascinating. I learned after starting this one that it is actually the second in the series, but not reading the first d More...

Cerita di buku ini bersetting sekitar 14 tahun setelah kisah Knife. Tokoh utamanya adalah Linden, putri asuh Knife, yang pada suatu hari di panggil ke kediaman Ratu Amaryllis bersama Valerian si Penyembuh. Ratu Amaryllis yang terbaring lemah kemudian membagikan sihirnya kepada Linden dan Valerian. Linden ditugaskan mencari keberadaan para peri lain dan meminta pertolongan untuk mengembalikan sihir mereka. Valerian diangkat sebagai pewaris tahta dan diberikan sihir yang mampu melindungi kehidupan More...

I'm having a hard time putting into writing why I liked this one better than the first. I didn't get a real feel for the characters in the first one. There is some of the same ones in this one, but the main characters are different. I felt like I knew them better. It was faster paced, so I felt the story flowed better. It also changed locations, which maybe added that little bit of extra spark to the story. I liked all of the events that took place in London. It just exciting and I wasn't sure w More...

Wayfarer takes place fifteen years after the events of Faery Rebels. Linden has grown up and being the youngest faery in the Oak is appointed as the Queen’s ambassador. Linden is not as spunky or as tough as Knife. She’s a young faery and it’s her first time being away from the Oak. She always listens to her conscience and doesn’t conform to what Timothy or others want her to do. Timothy also has troubles of his own of which he has been avoiding. The two form an unlikely friendship which through More...

Just like knife, as I expected, I enjoyed every line written across the page. This one brought more of a mysterious feel. Especially with one character in particular; Rob. Once again the book was beautifully written and certainly unique. I would recommend it to anyone.

A fine follow-up to Spell Hunter, this second installment of the Faery Rebel series continues the story of the Oak's faeries, who are dying out from a loss of their magic. The 15-year-old faery Linden is chosen to embark on a survival quest, in which she goes out into the world and meets Timothy, a 15-year-old human boy who grew up with his missionary parents in Uganda and is having trouble adjusting to England, where he has been sent to a boarding school from which he has been suspended. It's a More...

In this sequel to Spell Hunter (which I liked quite a lot, despite not usually liking fairy books), Linden is now the youngest fairy in the Oakenwyld colony. Knife is nearby, leading a new life, and it's Linden's turn to save the colony. Easier said than done, but she finds other fairies--and discovers that seclusion had its advantages.

Despite the familiar world and characters, Wayfarer just didn't appeal to me in the same way as Spell Hunter. Still worth reading (especially with the clear open More...

"Wayfarer" is a sequel or possible companion book to "Knife" and is definitely a niche book for fantasy lovers and most likely female ones! To me, it is unlikely that it would appeal to a male audience. "Wayfarer" is an ultimate quest book as fifteen year old fairy, Linden, and her human companion, Timothy, seek to save the Oakenfolk colony of fairies who have, through time and nefarious deeds, lost their magic powers. Linden and Timothy endure some highly incredible and imaginative adventures a More...

I'm starting to think R.J. Anderson can do no wrong. Which she probably can't.

Wayfarer is no longer Knife's story, but Linden's. Linden in a way is the opposite of Knife. When Knife is impulsive and wild, Linden is sweet and does what she is told. Wayfarer was definitely not what I expected, it was different from Spell Hunter while still remaining fresh. There are some of the old characters who have changed quiet a bit and others remain the same despicable selves.

R.J. Anderson truly makes her More...

I actually didn't expect it to end like it did, I expected her to fall in love with Timothy but...

I loved Anderson's FAERY REBELS: SPELL HUNTER aka KNIFE (UK title ftw), but WAYFARER is even more fantastic. The story telling is much more urgent, and the plot really sucks you in and drives you to the point that you can't find a good "stopping place" to put the book down...and thus read the whole thing in a day :)
I loved Linden and Timothy's friendship (though I was disapointed at the way the book ended in regards to their relationship) and the continued world building that acknowledges, but d More...

Well this book was a bit of a disappointment compared to the first one. Although the storyline is good, one never feels very emotionally connected to the two main characters. And one of my favorite parts of the last book was that it took place at Oakhaven and Oakenwyld, which was a great setting, and this book took place all over Britain. While it made for a very adventuresome story, the sense of "place" that was so strong in the first book, was decidedly lacking in this one. Overall, i'd have t More...

I was going to give this book four stars but in the end it was too amazing! I love Linden. At first she as way too shy and it was her first time on a adventure. But she met Timothy, Paul and Peri's cousin and the adventure began.

Timothy at first sounded like a complete jerk but after meeting Linden his heart began to slowly change. Timothy almost gave his life for Linden and he was very brave. They both met bad fairies on the way and fairies that wanted to betray the oaklynfolk.

But reading thi More...

Fast paced, entertaining and nice characters that are relatable in their complications. Well written and greatly enjoyed. This was the first time in a couple of months that I read a book in one sitting. Can't wait for Arrow. I really hope that R J Anderson gets the recognition that she deserves from these YA novels.

I love the way that she makes all her characters unique and fleshes them out to give them individuality, all the while not allowing them to be defined by any one quality.

I really enjo More...

After reading Knife and thoroughly enjoying it, I was impatient to get started with this one, with its cover equally as beautiful as Knife but sadly lacking the black-edged pages. Overall, another aesthetically pleasing book and I was praying that the tale it held inside its covers would be just as pleasing.

In my opinion, first lines are vitally important. It sets the tone for the novel and can either pull you in straight away or make you wary from the off. A good first line can easily a good More...