Bkfunnel/ The Frenzy at the Faire by L.L. Gray

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Harper Sullivan thought Havenwood’s Renaissance Faire would mean harmless medieval fun, turkey legs, and jousting matches. Instead, the newly crowned Faire queen collapses after a single sip of mead and the town festival suddenly becomes the scene of a deadly mystery.

With the queen’s life hanging by a thread—and a rogue spell cutting Harper off from the friends she usually relies on—she must untangle a web of secrets hiding behind colorful tents, costumed performers, and suspicious merchants before time runs out.

Can Harper unmask the culprit before the Faire’s grand finale turns fatal?

My 4 Star Review:  It couldn't have been wilder !

 Harper Sullivan is human but not totally. She has a connection to the trees in the area and a not often used magic of being able to connect with anything metal.  She thinks she's not good enough for this magical community. But she really has quite a few people  who love her.  Even Nathaniel Silverthorne, who is a well liked lawyer, is her boyfriend and finds her extraordinary ! Interesting because "Nate" is a vampire ! This Connecticut community is wild and usually pulls together to help each other.  His family is also his mother, a brother and a sister who also work the faire.  Harper has only been there for a year but finds she loves it and the Spellbooks shop that she now owns.  Cassandra is her only employee . Harper's best friend is Bella who is quite a support for her.  

It's Harper's idea to include humans and to invite other magical people from outside their community. There's a bit of a pushback about that but she wins.  She knows what it feels like to not feel like she fits in anywhere and doesn't want for anyone else to feel that!

Luna, the moon rabbit from an earlier book and spreads her own brand of chaos and helps unwittingly. There are plenty of interesting "people" in this story as well. 

 The story is fun, charming, intense at times and a really surprising, whirlwind of an ending. 

I received this story free from the author and I enjoyed it.  

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HOWEVER I DON'T WANT TO READ ANY MORE OF THIS SERIES.