“I don’t wish to go to them,” Fenella repeated. “They will want to love you and take care of you. The queen continued as if Fenella had not spoken. I will keep Lucy and her family entirely out of it.” Tell them you have been freed and are coming to them for help to restart your life.” You will go to the two that survive, Lucy and her mother, Miranda. The queen sends her brother Ryland along in the form of a cat to help Fenella, and then reveals more about the quest: If she fails? She will once again be Padraig’s slave.Īnd there’s more. She commits herself to the tasks.Īnd then Fenella learns that if she completes the tasks, not only will she again be mortal, but Padraig will die. She warns Fenella that this will involve terrible choices, but Fenella doesn’t care. The queen figures out that to break the spell, Fenella needs to complete three tasks of deliberate destruction in the mortal realm. There’s a spell upon her, cast by Padraig, the one who cursed her family. Now, Fenella just wants to be allowed to die.įenella goes to the faerie queen, begging to be allowed to die.

When Lucy broke the family curse, she didn’t break the enchantment placed on Fenella.

Fenella also has been unable to die for all those centuries, having to watch each of her daughters and granddaughters be tormented in turn. In Impossible, we learned about the family curse on Lucy Scarborough and all of her female line right back to her ancestor, Fenella Scarborough, who rejected an Elfin Knight and then was cursed. And though technically you can read it without having read the others, it pulls together some threads from both Impossible and Extraordinary, so I’m happy with my choice to read them in order. Unthinkable is billed as a “Companion” to Impossible. So together they gave my vacation a memory of some Extraordinary reading time! After I read Impossible, by Nancy Werlin, on the way to vacation in Oregon, I made sure I went to Powell’s books to find copies of Extraordinary and Unthinkable to read as well.

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