4.12 avg rating — 158 ratings

"Stonkingly good read. I really couldn't put it down. Having a great love for the Faerie Tales of my childhood I have long waited for such a book. The stories are like scrying into deep water, the stillness on the surface allows a hint of something which incites the senses to just dip your toe in, and then the undercurrent captures your imagination and before you know it you are inside a space of magic and mayhem, Faeries and Trolls not to mention the monstrously Machiavellian misfits. Ancient tales all familiar strange, whose voices work best when allowed to speak on the full moon around a fire. Each of these stories has a voice of its own and would be told, you cannot help but tell them as if under a spell. Enchanted and enthralled I am reading this book again and will be telling these stories again and again. Feeling the way I did as a child wide eyed, wide eared, leaning forward and waiting breathless for the next story
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