See Me

This week we’re exploring Ireland, fairies, and leprechauns in the book See Me by Wendy Higgins.

Description from Amazon-

While most seventeen-year-old American girls would refuse to let their parents marry them off to a stranger, Robyn Mason dreams of the mysterious McKale in Ireland, wondering how he’ll look and imagining his Irish accent. Prearranged bindings are common for magical families like her own, however when she travels to the whimsical Emerald Isle she discovers there’s more to her betrothal and McKale’s clan than she'd been led to believe.

What starts as an obligatory pairing between Robyn and McKale morphs over time into something they both need. But one giant obstacle stands in the way of their budding romance: a seductive and deadly Fae princess accustomed to getting what she wants—and what she wants is McKale as her plaything. Love, desire, and jealousies collide as Robyn’s family and McKale’s clan must work together to outsmart the powerful Faeries and preserve the only hope left for their ancient bloodlines.

I really felt transported to Ireland in this book, even though I’ve never been to Ireland Higgins just did such an amazing job at building the scene throughout the book that you feel like your actually there with Robyn and McKale.

Higgins also did a great job with the character arcs in this book, it was great to read how McKale evolves throughout the book. He starts off as this shy guy, who feels like he doesn’t belong with the leprechauns, to a confident person in the end who loves where he’s at.

This is an arranged marriage book, so Robyn and McKale are promised to each other before they even meet each other, and I know some people would shy away from this topic cause they don’t like it, but I didn’t mind it! I thought it was cute, and Robyn has known about the marriage her whole life, she‘s literally grown up dreaming about him. I also loved that she put away gifts for him as she grew up, she didn’t know that gifts played a big part in leprechaun culture when she did it, but she wanted to share a part of her with him.

See Me is a standalone, though if Higgins really wanted to she could continue on and make this into a series, give Robyn’s sister a book and talk more about the fairies.