The baby is rescued by the elves and raised at their own, and they name her Anduan, which means foundling.Īnduan, now eighteen, meets a hot dude in the woods in a naked bathing meet-cute. The book starts out with two elves witnessing the murder of a beautiful woman with a newborn at the hands of dark knights. Books about faeries and unicorns and gnomes, where the good people are always good and the bad people are always bad. Some books are bad-bad, but reading this book made me nostalgic for all the trashy fantasy books I read as a kid. Because even though my copy wasn't safe to keep (*sob* *sniff* *sob*), I really did want to find out what happened. Since I don't keep moldy books in the house, I stored it outside, where I've been reading it ever since. The beautiful Pino Daeni cover was also scratched and creased. Then, I ended up getting a copy of it in a lot of books I had purchased in bulk! But tragedy of tragedies: my copy was badly water-damaged and infected with spots of blue mold. But at the time, copies of it were prohibitively expensive and I despaired of every getting a copy of it, just like the other two books on my wishlist: STORMFIRE and THE SILVER DEVIL. It was like something out of a Lisa Frank-themed porno shoot and I knew I had to have it. ENCHANTED PARADISE has been on my to-read list for a while ever since I saw it featured on a blog celebrating beautiful covers.
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