50 book challenge. Book 10.
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deliriumcrowThe Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
I actually read this at the same time as Seductress, and enjoyed it significantly more. It is, as the title states, about fairies, who happen to be in New york City, causing trouble. Some of them are suppsoed to be there, some are not, and just happen to be there by accident, after a rather drunken night in Ireland. There is an industrial revolution complete with enclosure acts driving farmers into cities to find work in factories, and an oppressive fairiy king who wants to make all of England and Scotland look like this (and presumably ireland next), and rebles who go into human libraries to find ways of combating this -- which amounts to reading the works of chairman Mao. And then there are humans, including a lovely hippy with Crohn's Disease and a colostomy bag, and the world's worst fiddler. Ever. And the ghost of a dead rockstar, and ... it's very silly. A great deal happens in the first couple chapters, and then the rest of the bookd consists of trying to fix the problems, which sometimes results in worse. Like, of course, a battle. A few of them.
It's very British, and very funny, and is the sort of thing that most of my friends would probably like a good deal.
I actually read this at the same time as Seductress, and enjoyed it significantly more. It is, as the title states, about fairies, who happen to be in New york City, causing trouble. Some of them are suppsoed to be there, some are not, and just happen to be there by accident, after a rather drunken night in Ireland. There is an industrial revolution complete with enclosure acts driving farmers into cities to find work in factories, and an oppressive fairiy king who wants to make all of England and Scotland look like this (and presumably ireland next), and rebles who go into human libraries to find ways of combating this -- which amounts to reading the works of chairman Mao. And then there are humans, including a lovely hippy with Crohn's Disease and a colostomy bag, and the world's worst fiddler. Ever. And the ghost of a dead rockstar, and ... it's very silly. A great deal happens in the first couple chapters, and then the rest of the bookd consists of trying to fix the problems, which sometimes results in worse. Like, of course, a battle. A few of them.
It's very British, and very funny, and is the sort of thing that most of my friends would probably like a good deal.
