![]() ![]() ![]() De Lint also manages to keep each new Newford story fresh and captivating because he is so generous and loving in his depiction of the characters. However, part of the beauty of Newford is the sense that it has always been there, that de Lint is a reporter who occasionally files stories from a reality stranger and more beautiful than ours. I can never recapture the feeling of first arriving in Newford and meeting the people and seeing the sights as a newcomer. Folktale, myth, fairy tale, dreams, urban legend-all of it adds up to pure magic in de Lint's vivid, original world. "Charles de Lint is the modern master of urban fantasy. But when she's asked to look into a mysterious box full of poltergeists she ends up making a promise to seven teenage ghosts that puts here directly in the crosshairs of a blood witch's deadly ire. ![]() ![]() Juniper should have known better after her last foray into the otherworld. I felt like my head was going to explode. It was years before I came to understand that she wasn't just being whimsical when she talked so easily about hobs and brownies and various kinds of faerie creatures.įaerieland, otherworlds, and all the denizens and creatures you might imagine to live there. Anyone who knows her wouldn't be surprised to learn that Jilly sees the world through a prism of faerie tales. ![]()
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