When Puck isn't doing errands for Oberon and screwing around with mortals in the woods outside of Athens, he's curating books with faeries in them! His favorites this week are below the break!
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
VERY scary faeries, Nanny and Granny take them more seriously than just about any other antagonists they face. Magrat gets to shine by absolutely WRECKING SHOP on the Elf Queen.
Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier
The faeries are not scary so much as they require respect and careful handling, because if you fuck up an interaction, you're getting classically cursed.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
A wonderful mix of scary and benign faeries, with an academic twist. Also, Wendell Babmbleby, who is one of those faeries who just attaches himself to you and you have to live with the consequences.
Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
Definitely some scary faeries, and you HAVE to know the rules or else you're going to end up being kidnapped to faerie forever. Also some really darling romance.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
So this gets billed as faerie spice, but frankly this book isn't terribly spicy. It is Beauty and the Beast meets the unseelie court, though. Also faerie romance.
That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams
This is Shakespearean faeries and Dadspeare, and Robing Goodfellow is nonbinary! There are definitely scary faeries here, but it has a very Midsummer Night's Dream vibe.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
A heart-wrenching exploration of humanity, family, the definition of monstrosity, and capitalism against a backdrop of HELLA scary faeries.
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