The Fairy Godmother
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781426861994 (1426861990)
Publish date: July 1st 2010
Publisher: Luna Books
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Series: Five Hundred Kingdoms (#1)
I could not read this book fast enough. I *needed* to know what happened next. I had never read anything by Lackey before but after seeing her on a panel at Dragon*Con I definitely wanted to read this series. Unfortunately the second book didn't do as much for me as this one did and I haven't read a...
I am an utter sucker for re-telling of fairy-tales, or using established fairy-tales in new and interesting ways. This book is the first of the 500 Kingdoms series by Mercedes Lackey and I've heard mixed reviews on them, but I always like to start with the foundation book. This particular book ...
This was a slow journey and I found myself almost giving up a few times. I'm glad I pushed through because this was a good one. The mythology was the best part. The Tradition and Questers and Ladderlock paths were so awesome - I've never read anything even remotely like it. It took a lot of explaini...
If TV Tropes and the [Color] Fairy books had a romance novel for a baby and dressed it in nothing but Lisa Frank-designed onesies, it would be this book. It is not entirely un-Xanth-like, albeit thankfully free of Xanth's whiff of pedophilia.The driving force behind this universe is the idea that th...
The Fairy Godmother is set in a place where a powerful magical force called “The Tradition” forces people to live out fairy-tales. What this means is that anyone whose circumstances resemble that of an already existing fairytale, "The Tradition" intervenes and makes it so that their lives turn out l...