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sarahtales ' generosity, I have a UK copy of rj_anderson 's Knife (to be released in the US and Canada on April 28, 2009 under the title Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter because Harper Collins was worried readers would think it was a mystery or thriller with no faeries at all... Mind, most of us would get it because there's a girl with wings on the front) about Bryony, a young faery who lives in the Oak in the back yard of the House. The faeries of the Oak, magicless after a great catastrophe only barely within living memory are terrified of humans, so when Bryony, the only child they have, escapes from the Oak, if only for a few minutes and sees a human boy from the House, and worse, he sees her, She's dragged back into the Oak. Even after she's chosen to become the Queen's Hunter, with the freedom to leave the Oak to bring home meat and chase away predators like crows and foxes, she doesn't think she'll meet the boy again, much less that he'd be so interesting.
( Pretty little faery... with a great big sharp metal thing )
Anderson's tiny, arboreal faeries and rural setting give her book a welcoming quality. Her faeries aren't scary, and Knife isn't the unsettling mix of horror and fantasy that defines most Urban Fantasy. It's comforting book, the kind that feels like sinking into a hot bath, and it's suspenseful and thrilling without ever relying on creep. I expect to reread it many times, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, and to any family that reads a book together in the evenings.
sarahtales ' generosity, I have a UK copy of rj_anderson 's Knife (to be released in the US and Canada on April 28, 2009 under the title Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter because Harper Collins was worried readers would think it was a mystery or thriller with no faeries at all... Mind, most of us would get it because there's a girl with wings on the front) about Bryony, a young faery who lives in the Oak in the back yard of the House. The faeries of the Oak, magicless after a great catastrophe only barely within living memory are terrified of humans, so when Bryony, the only child they have, escapes from the Oak, if only for a few minutes and sees a human boy from the House, and worse, he sees her, She's dragged back into the Oak. Even after she's chosen to become the Queen's Hunter, with the freedom to leave the Oak to bring home meat and chase away predators like crows and foxes, she doesn't think she'll meet the boy again, much less that he'd be so interesting.( Pretty little faery... with a great big sharp metal thing )
Anderson's tiny, arboreal faeries and rural setting give her book a welcoming quality. Her faeries aren't scary, and Knife isn't the unsettling mix of horror and fantasy that defines most Urban Fantasy. It's comforting book, the kind that feels like sinking into a hot bath, and it's suspenseful and thrilling without ever relying on creep. I expect to reread it many times, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, and to any family that reads a book together in the evenings.
