The Godmother's Apprentice

Godmother #2

by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Fairy godmother-in-training Sno Quantrill pursues her education in Ireland, where she discovers a doorway to the land of Faerie and joins an unlikely band of comrades during the funeral for the King of the Cats. Reprint.

Genres: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Own, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Science Fiction

294 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough was born March 23, 1947, and lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Elizabeth won a Nebula Award in 1989 for her novel The Healer's War, and has written more than a dozen other novels. She has collaborated with Anne McCaffrey, best-known for creating the Dragonriders of Pern, to produce the Petaybee Series and the Acorna Series.

Reviews

[Herman · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Godmother's Apprentice (book #2 of the Godmother series) by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough I love this series and I love this Author's work, it may not seem like I do since I haven't read any of her work for the past couple of years, what can I say so many books so little time, also I need to be in just the right state of mind for reading her work allow me to explain. Ms. Scarborough has a very unique voice especially in this series of stories grounded in Irish Fairy Tails, but written with a sense of hope of enchanting innocent and real life sort of pose it's just a odd combination that actually works especially in this very complex but delightful story of Sno Quantrill a child of a rock star and a evil model stepmother who in the first of the series (The Godmother) is set up for this which has Sno moving too Ireland to begin her apprentice for fairy godmother work. This is a fun read, a light read, a serious but tongue-in-cheek telling of ancient Irish legends and fables written in a matter-of-fact way that mixes life with magic and the results are just a very happy read. Very much enjoyed this story and now I'm going to add the third and last of this series The Godmother's web to my too read list. I do believe that most people would really enjoy Ms. Scarborough's work she is very talented and skilled writer with her work operating of different levels the hardest thing is to make is sound simple plain and normal when it's none of those things and that is what the author does it's her magic to be able to hid the most serious things in mundane and customary but imbrue it with magic and create a wonderful magical-realist modern fairy tale. Five stars! Excellent little safe for young readers sort of series.

[Nicholas Whyte]

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the second of a three-part YA series about a sassy American girl from Seattle who is in training to become a fairy godmother, and is sent to a mid-1990s Ireland for a learning experience involving legendary figures plucked both from the more respectable sources of lore and from Yeats and placed in the gritty tail end of the twntieth century. Scarborough's handling of Northern Ireland is not terribly adept and her geography elsewhere but she is clearly trying hard with the Dublin and Wicklow settings, and her attempts at dialect are not too excruciating. Not a particularly challenging book, but not too objectionable either.

[Theresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Godmother's Apprentice (Godmother, #2)
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann
A look at popular and historic mythos about Ireland, and god mothers, a humorous tale of miss happening and mistakes that a young girl goes through learning how to be a godmother, and earning the magic that will enable her to help others. she is so, similar in description to snow white, with the pervious book hinted at that she has survived a modern fractured fairy tale. now its time to relive the Irish tales. Looking at mythos and stories involved in Irish tales.

[Kelli Sprowls · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this series...tales taking the characters from old fairy tales and placing them in modern times...even acknowledging that the characters, like the tales, have been constants through time, and yet each tale is still new and different.

[Betsy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't like the voice used in this book. I'm disappointed, because I usually love this author.

[Connie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny book...it didn’t need all the strong language....but it makes me wonder just how many fairy tales should be told in one book....?

[Shelley Krueger · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick fun read, with some intro to Irish folklore.

[Caroline · Rating 2 out of 5]

Second one not so good - couldn't get into the third one at all.

[Sherrill Watson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written in 1995.

I grew bored even with the snippets of Irish history. Maybe if I were Irish . . .

Snohomish (Sno, from Washington!) Quantrill, Felicity Fortune, a frog, Bobby, and Puss, and Tom the cat, and the swans, and Tom the person . . . well, you get the idea. Sno is "14 going on 15" and her "Da" is a famous rock star, Raydir Quantrill, too busy to deal with Sno, so Sno decided to become a Godmother's Apprentice, to Felicity, who is seldom around. Well, that & Sno was 'almost murdered, once by a hit man and twice by her stepmom' and Bobby was the hitman, working off his karma. THAT was her motivation.

There are many other characters, no one really bad, and Sno puts a really great spin on things as seen thru the eyes of a hip teenager.

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sno Quantrill is off to Ireland to study fairy-godmothering. Fortunately, a number of stories have begun and meets a number of worthy recipients - and even one who needs time before becoming worthy. As in Grimm, the bad guys are really bad. It takes a journey back through Irish time to adequately deal with the nasty one in this tale. This story isn't as tightly woven, though all the loose ends are tied up at the end in some way.

[Molly Ringle · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Strange" comes to mind as the word for this. Confusing sometimes. Pace was too slow in parts, and too quick in other parts. So those are the flaws. But the up side is the Irishness of it all: dialect, scenery, history, and best of all, mythology. It was a good crash course in Irish/Celtic myths for me, as I knew very little about them before.

[Shelley Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoy the modern take on old fairy tales. And while I don't think Scarborough writes a very convincing teenageed narrator, there is actually quite a lot of irish mythology and history in this book. Enjoyable genre fiction.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this when I was a kid :)

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

A favorite of mine as a teen, that helped fuel my obsession with all things Irish.

[Annmarie Wise · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the approach to fairy tale retellings in a modern setting, however I'm disappointed in the blatant political agenda of the writer.

[Neesi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really fun book for me to read, because I love both magic and social work.

[Elayine Julian · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book. the whole series is easy to read and very enjoyable.