{"id":4525,"date":"2019-05-11T17:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2019-05-11T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T22:07:57","slug":"jen-reads-f-is-for-fairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2019\/05\/11\/jen-reads-f-is-for-fairy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads F IS FOR FAIRY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43849404-f-is-for-fairy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1549396875m\/43849404.jpg\" alt=\"F is for Fairy\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43849404-f-is-for-fairy\">F is for Fairy<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2651534.Rhonda_Parrish\">Rhonda Parrish<\/a><br \/><br \/> My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2764010826\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><br \/><br \/><br \/> This is the sixth Alphabet Anthology book, where each story is titled with a word starting with each subsequent letter of the alphabet. I wouldn&#8217;t mind finding the first few (though they have different themes, so I don&#8217;t feel like I missed anything). Overall this was a fun read, and I truly enjoyed trying to figure out what word each story was representing. Most of the time I was wrong \ud83d\ude09<br \/><br \/>The stories span genres&#8211;you&#8217;ll find traditional fairy tales reminiscent of A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, urban fantasy, light horror, even a fae story taking place on a spaceship. Stories that stood out for me: a tale of Nordic fae by C.S. MacCath; Stephanie A. Cain&#8217;s story of unusual ancestry; Rachel M. Thompson&#8217;s royal romance; Megan Engelhardt&#8217;s World War I tale; Michael M Jones&#8217; story of a club where love can be lost, and found; the reveal of a most unexpected facet of an ogre by Michael Fosburg; and the completely unexpected juxtaposition of hockey and imminent apocalypse by Beth Cato (the author who informed me of this anthology&#8217;s existence).<br \/><br \/>Not a problem, just an observation: some of the stories are <em>very<\/em> short. It was a surprise when I tapped through the book on my iPad and suddenly a story was done. More power to authors who can tell a complete story in few words. As with any anthology, be prepared for swings in author style, which can be jarring.<br \/><br \/>If you like short stories with fantastical bents, this anthology is for you.<br \/><br \/>I received this book as a complimentary e-ARC from Booksprout in exchange for an honest review.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F is for Fairy by Rhonda Parrish My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the sixth Alphabet Anthology book, where each story is titled with a word starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2019\/05\/11\/jen-reads-f-is-for-fairy\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Jen reads F IS FOR FAIRY, an alphabetically-inclined anthology of unique fairy tales","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,26],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-fantasy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-1aZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4529,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}