Unusual, especially for not featuring any humans at all, but sadly a bit rushed (or possibly over-edited) so that the complex world-building isn't really developed enough or properly explained. Maybe too many concepts are included for the length.

The basic premise is quite good though. Long Long ago the three Faerie Queens ruled each with their own dominion. From them lived all the high faerie we know of lore. Humanity came though, and now the diminished descendants hide in the gaps, bloodlines mingled powers corrupted, never seen but fighting to survive. Several tribes of these folk, sprites/goblins/pixies et al live in the Landfill among the towers of debris humans have discarded. There is food there for those that no how to hunt, shelter too. But all is fiercely protected, and other scavenger such as the feared Pale Death of seagulls compete for them too, and so the tribe is paramount.

Princess Needleye and her trusted best friend Verdigris of the Goblins, hatch a plan to retrieve some treasure from across the border with their neighbours, although a truce was only recently negotiated. It all goes wrong of course, and they're forced to try to rescue their involved friends from the wrath of their own King and the powerful neighbours.

It's a good story, but the details of the how and why they create poisons and their effects are never clear, the same with the Glamour (or indeed whether this is or isn't the same thing). It's not even clear what abilities the main characters have, let alone any of the minor players who mostly don't seem to have anything for no reasons. The faeries never see or interact with the humans at all, yet they describe the humans items in the Landflll in human terms rather than wondering over what their original purpose was, or just in terms of their utility (which would have been fun to infer, but may have become challenging over time). Given that no humans ever enter the story this doesn't make sense. It's also slightly confusing that distances are in inches and yards, unless they're millimetres (admittedly this is how I tend to think, but it's an odd juxtaposition). I wasn't entirely convinced the author had a full grasp on the difficulties of creatures of that size.

Fun but slightly grimy and I'm not sure I'm convinced enough to find the rest of the series, even though it ends somewhat abruptly with many more adventures to come. ( )