This is the second Graham Joyce book that I have read and, to my perhaps simplistic view, these novels revolve around core themes. In The Silent Land the theme was love. In Some Kind of Fair Tale it is loss of time/youth.Peter's sixteen year old sister Tara disappears while taking a walk among the...
Twenty years after her disappearance a young woman shows up at her parent's doorstep seemingly unaged. Her story of what happened to her is straight out of Thomas the Rhymer or La Belle Dame sans Merci and everyone thinks she is either lying or insane.One of my favorite elements in good fiction is ...
Pretty good, plays interesting games with the notion of genre, the act of immersion in fantasy and the purposes of it. Brushes up against the fourth wall, with one strand of the story analyzing and explaining another even as Ursula Le Guin and John Clute are being quoted. There still manages to be a...
I had to take a few days to think about this book before I could decide if I liked it or not. Some Kind of Fairy Tale was an interesting book. Tara Martin disappeared 20 years ago and has now returned. She thinks she has only been gone for 6 months. She even looks like she is still 15. The stor...
Will do a proper review over the weekend, but, until then ... I have to say I truly enjoyed this book. In essence, it is more about the affect the return of a family member can have after a 20 year absence, rather than the telling of a fairy tale.
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