This is going to be a short highlight since it’s been awhile since I read this and I don’t have it with me on hand.

This book written by Gecko Keck is based on the the Bayala toy line. As one can imagine the toy line with its sparkly fairies and horses caught my eye first before I ever picked up the book.

What was so cool about the story, a classic of twins split at birth one who stays on the good kingdom and the other, unknowing of her origins, with the dark side until fate suddenly snaps their twininstincts to life until they feel compelled to find each other, was the world it created.

I don’t know if it was partially based on Lord of the Rings, what with the elves, since I never read it but to me it was completely unique. The scrying through flames, the pyramid of glass that turns your desires to nightmarish illusions, the differences between the dark elfin fairies that lived in volcanos and the ones of light and magic, it was all so unlike any magical world I ever read before.

And that’s why I suggest it to you. For fans of elves, magic and bonds transcending memory, it is a magical romp.

And apparently there’s a sequel that I just got to get my hands on somehow!