5 stars.

This is the fifth book in the Fairyland series and I think the last. At least it is the last following these characters anyway, but the ending does such a good job of tying up September’s story that I don’t mind at all.

“The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.”
The last book in the series followed the changeling children Hawthorne and Tamburlaine and I did find that the writing style which I usually thoroughly enjoy started to annoy me a little in that book, however, that must have just been down to the characters or the story, because the writing style in this book read to me like the first one and is infinitely quotable all the way through.

“Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.”
We meet September as she is the Queen of Fairyland, but all the previous monarchs of Fairyland are also present and they all want to rule, so The Cantankerous Derby is set in place and whoever can find The Heart of Fairyland will rule. The derby takes up most of the rest of the book and The Heart of Fairyland, while possible to be anything is of course only possible to be one thing really, and once you know what it is it’s obvious and very fitting for not only the Fairyland series but every fairytale about magical worlds.

“All librarians are members of the Catalogue. That’s what you call a coven when it’s made up of Librarians instead of witches.”
I would say that while I do have my favourite books of the series and less favourite books of the series, as a whole the series does work extremely well and I know this will not be the last time I read the whole series through.