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‘A tantalizing sense of foreboding… highly readable’
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Reissued in spectacular new cover of Feist’s chilling dark fantasy
Successful screenwriter Phil Hastings decides to move his family from sunny California to a ramshackle farmhouse in New York State. The idea is to take some time out, relax and pick up the threads of his career as a novelist.
Good plan, bad choice. The place they choose is surrounded by ancient woodland. The house they choose is the centrepoint of a centuries-old evil intent on making its presence felt to intruders.
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Barney Doyle sat at his cluttered workbench, attempting to fix Olaf Andersen's ancient power mower for the fourth time in seven years. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Barney Doyle sat at his cluttered workbench, attempting to fix Olaf Andersen's ancient power mower for the fourth time in seven years. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Faerie Tale is quite unusual for Feist, set well away from the fantasy universe of the Riftwar. Here he borrows heavily from European, and particularly Northern European, folklore to create a fairy story based in the New World. As the cover says, this is no bedtime story. When a successful scriptwriter uses his earnings to buy his family a place in the country, all unawares he buys a house that should never have been sold, kept by a shadowy group of magi to protect the site of one of the ancient compacts between the outside and hidden worlds. When the compact is broken, there is nothing left to stop the unseelie returning to the world of men, and revenging their confinement upon the agents of their liberation.
Faerie Tale spins an unsettling picture of a world that might just exist behind this one. It is a dark, often chilling fantasy that recaptures the very real fear that people felt in a time when fairies might just be real, and hadn’t yet been dressed in pink chiffon and reduced to butterfly size. It is an elegantly written book with well-drawn human characters, and fairies who are robust and real, with such beautiful characterisation that you even end up feeling sorry for the fate of the Fool and the unseelie. As a long-time reader of mythology and fairy stories, I enjoyed the redemption of the fairies from the bottom of the garden. As a Feist fan, I liked the excursion into the unknown. And as someone who likes reading, I was hooked by the well-paced and constructed story. Readers who can’t stand fantasy at all should probably steer clear. Anyone who enjoys fantasy or who has an enquiring mind should try this for an unusual and enchanting story.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Raymond E. Feist is better known for his phenomenal novel Magician and his epic tales of the Riftwar. Faerie Tale was a complete change of direction for him and was written as a ‘stand alone’ book rather than part of a lengthy series. The story centres on a family, writer Phil, his wife Gloria and their children, Patrick, Sean and Gabby. The family move to an old farmhouse in a rural New York so that Phil can have peace and quiet for his writing. What they are unaware of is the fact that the house has been built by a gateway to the land of the Faeries.
These faeries are not the cute little winged creatures beloved of children’s books however; they are malevolent, selfish and cold with a penchant for meddling in the lives and minds of the hapless newcomers. Anyone familiar with old tales and legends will recognise such scenes as the Great Hunt, and characters such as Puck and the three White Women and it is easy to see where some of Feist’s ideas have come from. However it certainly isn’t a simple re-hash of old myths but a story with originality and depth, just what you would expect from a writer of Feist’s calibre. It also makes a refreshing change to read a fantasy novel that isn’t part of a trilogy or more.
One reservation is the sexual content which, although only a small part of the story, is a little graphic at times and means this isn’t a book suitable for younger readers. The plot isn’t the most complex but that aside, this is a spine chilling story that keeps the suspense going throughout as the family fight to keep some normality and sanity in their lives. This is a great read for anyone wanting something a little different and well worth adding to a bookshelf.
These faeries are not the cute little winged creatures beloved of children’s books however; they are malevolent, selfish and cold with a penchant for meddling in the lives and minds of the hapless newcomers. Anyone familiar with old tales and legends will recognise such scenes as the Great Hunt, and characters such as Puck and the three White Women and it is easy to see where some of Feist’s ideas have come from. However it certainly isn’t a simple re-hash of old myths but a story with originality and depth, just what you would expect from a writer of Feist’s calibre. It also makes a refreshing change to read a fantasy novel that isn’t part of a trilogy or more.
One reservation is the sexual content which, although only a small part of the story, is a little graphic at times and means this isn’t a book suitable for younger readers. The plot isn’t the most complex but that aside, this is a spine chilling story that keeps the suspense going throughout as the family fight to keep some normality and sanity in their lives. This is a great read for anyone wanting something a little different and well worth adding to a bookshelf.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked this book up at a second-hand store years ago, not expecting much, but Feist certainly delivers. He mixes modern life with ancient Celtic and English folklore, in a spine-chilling, enthralling and at times erotically charged tale which will have you looking over your shoulder the next time you're alone in the woods.
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A good departure from the norm
As an avid follower of Raymond E Feists Riftworld books, I was keen to read this book. I was not dissappointed. Read more
Published 12 months ago by B. Jones
Horror
Horror at it's best, stepehn King eat your heart out, i fisrt read this book when it came out in 1982 and it was fantastic then and it will be again, unfortunatley i could not get... Read more
Published 16 months ago by actionman023
Seriously Frightening and certainly not for children.
Raymond Feist is a clever man, he has managed to create a novel that encompasses both the real world and the world of the Sidhe........... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Neferra
Interludes with the Shining Man
A family has bought an old house in the countryside of the southern USA - the father is a writer, the mother an ex-actor and they have twin boys and a girl in her late teens, the... Read more
Published on 11 April 2010 by Eileen Shaw
Fantastic fantasy novel
This is the second copy of the book I have bought (after the original papeback fell apart from over reading!!). It's a great, Faerie Talegripping novel from start to finish. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2009 by Trinity
Disappointing
The subject matter was extremely interesting - I'm a big fan of fantasy novels, mythology and spooky stories. Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2009 by Constant Reader
No Sweet Faerie Story....................
I absolutely love this book, so much that i have re-read it a few times. The first time was when I was about 19 (long ago) and it scared the pants off me. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2009 by Sesterce
Disappointing
I loved the Riftwar Saga so thought I would give this a go.... I was sorely disappointed, it was trashier than a Stephen King and ended up in the bin before I was even half-way... Read more
Published on 27 May 2009 by C. H. Free
A complete break for Feist and non the worse for it.
It took me a while to get round to reading this book, I had read everything else by the author but foundf the idea of a fantasy author writing a horror too odd. Read more
Published on 12 April 2008 by genejoke
FAERIE TALES CAN COME TRUE...
Let me cut to the chase. I loved this book! I simply could not put it down. I only lament the fact that I had left it sitting unread on my bookshelf for years. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2007 by Lawyeraau
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