Refreshingly Nasty Fairies

Much as I like fairy stories I have to say that the children's book market has been a tad saturated with those fey creatures of late. And so I was a bit dubious when I first saw Lesley M. M. Blume's Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties: A Practical Guide by Miss Edythe McFate.  Not only was it fairies, modern ones mind you, but it had one of those narrators-who-isn't-the-actual-author — another overly popular trope of late.

But let me tell you, this book feels fresh and...