Except the Queen

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Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Yolen, Jane	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024

Cast from the high court of the Fairy Queen, sisters Serena and Meteora must find a way to survive in the mortal realm of Earth. But when signs point to a rising power that threatens to tear asunder both fairy and human worlds, they realize that they were chosen to fight the menace because they were the only ones who could do what must be done.

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Amazing novel submitted by nickino on July 13, 2013, 8:40am The surprising thing about this novel is that it takes place in a contemporary, though slightly different than ours, world. Atmospheric, dark and highly unusual, I keep thinking about this book.

Interesting, but complicated submitted by LibraryMaven on June 15, 2014, 12:00pm This urban fantasy has an interesting premise: two faerie sisters are kicked out of Faerie by the Queen for being indiscreet about her affair with a mortal man and must learn to live in the mortal world. Their lives between intertwined with two troubled teenagers, and as the book winds on, both the sisters and readers realize that the story they find themselves in is far more complicated than they imagined. Regrettably, the great story line suffers in the execution: the narrative suffers from too many viewpoints, particularly in the first half of the novel, and it is difficult to keep track of which characters know what. That being said, it’s still a good read, particularly once the reader gets oriented and the pace picks up. The character growth of the no-longer-young-and-immortal faerie sisters is welcome, as are the observations on the place of old women and outsiders in society throughout the novel. Readers familiar with European fairy traditions will appreciate the riffs on traditional fairy tales wound through the narrative. T Surprisingly gritty for a fantasy novel, Except the Queen will pull in fans of fantasy, but may serve to turn off those just getting into the genre due to the complexity of its form.