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Loading... Faerie Tale: A Novel of Terror and Fantasy (original 1988; edition 2001)by Raymond E. Feist
Work InformationFaerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist (1988)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. There was a lot to like about this book, but it seemed methodical and not exciting. There was menace in it from the fey, but I just didn't feel it built to anything exciting. ( ) Faerie Tale steps more into the modern world than a lot of Feist's work. I like this more than any *any* of his Riftwar work, as at least it is working from a fairly original premise rather than adapting gaming sessions. Some of what's below is going to sound kind of negative, but ultimately I did enjoy this more than any other Feist work, and as long as some of the...triggering things aren't too much for a reader its probably worth the quick read it it is. Right out of the gate, potential readers should know that there's a fairly detailed sexual assault. I've read some criticism of how the aftermath is handled, but I think Feist is at least trying to give a reasonable in-universe explanation within the story. Overall, the story is pretty preoccupied with sex, probably something to expect from a semi-modern faerie story, but just be aware going in. How a lot of sex and gender relations are handled is pretty par for the course from an 80s horror/fantasy story, but again, from a current lens is going to feel pretty cringy and insensitive at times. Its early for the urban fantasy movement, but is closer to that than most other sub-genres. Its clear some research went into the supernatural/folklore aspects of the book but its implementation is just okay. The main characters consist of a family of five, a few scholarly friends, one of whom is a love interest to the oldest daughter. Every one of them is exceedingly brilliant and wealthy. Some are famous (the parents, one of the scholarly friends), some are genius academics far more well off than academics should realistically be (another of the friends and the love interest), some have inherited wealth (the heiress daughter), some like the daughter and another academic are just so broadly brilliant and talented it puts the idea of a polymath to shame. For me, this was a harder issue to get past reading the story than dated handlings of gender roles and sex, but your mileage may vary. no reviews | add a review
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"A contemporary novel of masterful horror replete with magic, fantasy, and more than a little stylish sensuality."--The Washington Post Phil Hastings was a lucky man--he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural of magic--and about to be altered irrevocably by a magic more real than any he dared imagine. For with the Magic came the Bad Thing, and the Faerie, and then the Fool . . . and the resurrection of a primordial war with a forgotten People--a war that not only the Hastings but the whole human race could lose. "Absorbing, thought-provoking, and thoroughly magical. Feist's skillfully crafted prose illuminates many of the darker sides of fairy stories. . . . Try it as a bedtime story . . . but only on nights when you can take some time getting to sleep."--The West Coast Review of Books No library descriptions found. |
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