I finished Olivia Atwater’s The Witchwood Knot this evening and it was just very delightful to be back within her magical human faerie world again. I’m pleased there will be more books in this series.
I’ve been enjoying a lot of faerie / fae / fair folk books lately - another one was heather fawcett’s emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries.
@meshell@bookstodon similar but perhaps slightly different spin would be Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black, if you haven't already read them. I quite liked most of the ones I remember.
@meshell@bookstodon I enjoyed both those books, and also enjoyed High Times in the Low Parliament, a novella. It does dump you straight into a fairy-ruled woman-only London without explanation but it’s fun if you just roll with it.
@wendypalmer@bookstodon k read that one before I really had a handle on faerie stuff and didn’t like it much, but it might be time to give it another try now that I know a bit more about the mythology of that world
@meshell@bookstodon it does have the lowest rating I’ve ever seen on GoodReads so is obviously not to everyone’s tastes 😊
Have you ever come across Catherynne Valente’s Fairyland series, starting with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making?
Or Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series? Or maybe Alix E Harrow. Or Zen Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown…
They’re all sort of adjacent to the books you mentioned — I’m sure I’ve read others that fit them closer but I just can’t think of any right now! (There’s one right on the tip of my tongue, it’s driving me nuts 😊)
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