Book Review: Nordic Fairies by Saga Berg

Nordic Fairies by Saga Berg
(Nordic Fairies, #1)
Release Date: January 17,2012
Publisher: Saga Berg; 36 pages

Nordic Liosálfar Svala and Viggo have been in love for a thousand years. After two years apart Svala turns on her TV to find Viggo in the public light, posing as a movie star. She tries to seek him out and the events that follow forces some deep buried secrets to surface...

Svala and Viggo have spent a hundred lives together over the last thousand years. As Liosálfar, Nordic light fairies, their job is to do good and to uphold a balance in the mortal world. A balance, often compromised by the Döckálfar, Nordic dark fairies.

But even good fairies need incentive.

Svala and Viggo are kept apart each life until they fulfill their assignments. Only when, and if, they succeed are they allowed to be together for whatever period of time the powers that be decides. Sometimes they are together for decades, other times years and during the last union once only three weeks.

In this life, Svala turns on her TV and learns that Viggo has become a popular movie star. This is not only highly unexpected, it indicates something is wrong and that Viggo is attempting to contact Svala before their assignments are carried out, an action which is strictly forbidden.

Svala seeks him out, but not without breaking a few rules of her own, and learning that things are not always as they seem.

I first off want to thank the author, Saga Berg, for being so kind to send me a copy of her novella. I was very excited to get this novella, being that I had never heard about it, so it was something new and different for me. I love anything paranormal, so this was right up my alley.

"Svala and Viggo have spent a hundred lives together over the last thousand years. As Liosálfar, Nordic light fairies, their job is to do good and to uphold a balance in the mortal world. A balance, often compromised by the Döckálfar, Nordic dark fairies."

This is a classic love story, but being that they are fairies and they have to do their jobs before they can be together, that is the awesome twist. It seems pretty crappy that you have to do all these assignments and only get sometimes as little as 3 weeks with the love of you life, and really bites that all of a sudden you are 14 again, knowing you have to live so long before you can see your love again.

I really enjoyed this story, I took a little away from my rating ONLY because it was so so short. That was my only issue. I know it is a novella, but this story can be developed into so much more. I am very excited to read the next book in this series, and see what happens with Svala and Viggo! I hope you all do take a chance to check it out!