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This was a really fun quick read. Lana is a scribe but an inveterate and shameless flirt, as well. She's as prone to selling her services as a scribe for a few stolen kisses than actual payment. And this gets her into trouble when she agrees to deliver a message to Parliament. She runs afoul of a bad-tempered fairy who orders her to deliver the message to Low Parliament. Which is a very very bad thing…
Once Lana enters the gate to Low Parliament, she is expected to stay and help in the courts; in fact, only a fairy can grant permission for her to leave. And the fairies don't do anything for humans without a price. The problem is that the Parliament is currently bound up in one case that isn't being resolved. Due to an old and long-standing decree, any hung vote will result in the Parliament being flooded. The purpose of this is to wash away all the humans who can't agree; after which, the fairies will just recruit a new batch. And Lana is stuck until and unless the vote is resolved. So, she decides her best course is to see what she can do to help.
Lana, being the flirtatious and funny person she is, always tries to make everyone laugh and love her. And the curmudgeonly fairy, Bugbite, is the first of her conquests. Her second, or so she hopes, is the beauteous and graceful Eloquentia, a human deputy in the Parliament. It turns out that nasty fairies are easier to capture and charm than one human female but it doesn't deter Lana.
I confess that while I was being swept away with Lana's charm, I didn't quite grasp the significance of the voting. In the end, only one vote actually counted and the reason is, I think, because the fairies - rather than just being the enforcers - joined in. And that was the point of the story…fairies and humans had been separated for too long; separated by the fear felt on both sides, and a rigid adherence to rules.
But the point in reading the story was to fall in love with Lana; as did both Bugbite and Eloquentia.
It was fast, funny and ironic. A real trifecta. ~~ Catherine Book
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