by Raymond E. Feist
by Raymond E. Feist This one kept getting recommended and after trying a sample, I decided to give it a read. It's my first Feist and possibly my only, as sampling another of his novels didn't impress me as much. It's a very dark story that wraps folklore, especially Irish mythology, around a mo...
Having read Faerie Tale in my early teens I was interested in rereading it for a new perspective. It's still the most literal fairy based story I ever read. Lacking even Grimm's polish Fiest goes back to the old Celtic mythology with all it's fascinating ugliness. The story has a dozen characters wi...
Other than the first three books of the Riftwar Saga, this is the only other book of Feist's that I have read and I must say that it is on a completely different level to what I was used to from this author. As can by seen from the title of this book this is not a fairy tale, far from it. In ...
I used to like Feist when I was in my teens, but got quickly annoyed when formula writing got the better of him and he started pooping out two uninspired books a year. That being said, Faerie Tale is different from his usual works. I was actually pleasantly surprised by this piece of dark fantasy, w...
I am shelving this with my other facetious "to-not-read-ever" reviews, even though I have nothing against the book. My parents owned a copy of it when I was very young and I was always fascinated and creeped out by the evocative cover with the lost shoe and the smear of blood. I spotted a used copy ...
I don't read a lot of adult fiction, especially since in these past few years I've seen a boom in young adult fiction, but when Faerie Tale was mentioned to me I thought it sounded very interesting and that it might be a good stepping stone to get me reading more adult fiction. And for the most part...
Faerie Tale is one of those books, for me at least, that does not get better with age. The first time I read it, I enjoyed it. The second time, I couldn't remember why I liked it to begin with. It's the only book that I've really had that type of reaction to. I've liked books less when I've gone...
I need to read this soon. I'm in the mood for a scary faery story.
It was this book that inspired me to adopt my "Amadan na Briona" handle. It's a great story of dark faeries interacting with the modern world that predates the current crop of crappy "urban fantasies." Technically, I suppose you could call this a "horror-fantasy," but the horror elements really aren...
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