I’m thinking of Lewis in The Sons of Heaven, trapped in the fairy mound. Baker’s fairies are kind of science fiction ones.

Fairies really shouldn’t have time for the romance anyway, because they should be all about the stabby and the diabolical/mischevious if you want to go the less cool way plans.

I wonder if that is kind of the draw though, the age difference – you spend all these years with other beings who have seen and done everything, learned a lot and then you get to be magical mentor lover to someone. It must be a big ego boost, if not the most healthy thing to base a relationship on.

Also: I LOVE Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, too!

It’s a collection of short stories, and the one I loved best was McKinley’s take on “The Princess and the Frog.” It had just a soupcon of “The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde,”(which, as you know, I also love.) And the other stories are good too; there’s a very nice version of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” Isn’t that one of your favorites?

Oh, okay, okay, War for the Oaks was a lot of fun and didn’t irritate me with its fairies. I knew I’d have forgotten some good fairy books.

I’m now first on the holds list for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms so that’ll be happening soon. Yay. I’ll let you know how it is.

DO fairies have parents? It is not clear to me how fairies come into being. I didn’t love Spindle’s End, generally.

I really want to see what’s going to happen in the next book. How will they find new princes when London is expanding and people are not born in the City proper? Eek!

It’s good!