This charming audiobook assumes listeners have a working knowledge of the myths surrounding fairies. This is a quick tale, requiring close attention, but narrator Tim Gerard Reynolds’s voice is steady, warm, and welcoming, so listeners never feel lost. There is urgency in the story itself—a fairy child must get human mother’s milk or die—and the audiobook conveys this without ever rushing. The characters not only have delightful Scottish burrs, but Reynolds also gives them terrific personalities. Domnall is an older fairy a bit weary with life who simultaneously projects hopefulness that has not gone away. Young fairy scout Micol is eager and energetic and exasperated. Human characters can sound faintly sinister, a quality that makes sense in this fairy tale told from a fairy’s perspective. G.D. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
This is what a “slow” week in SF/F looks like: still packed with enough blisteringly cool new releases to drool over until next Tuesday.
For years, Tor.com has been a source for daring, original—and free—online short fiction, publishing wonderful, occasionally even Hugo-winning work by both established genre stars and exciting new voices. Which is why we were thrilled when the announcement came earlier this year that Tor.com was launching its own imprint, Tor.com Publishing, with the aim to deliver novella-length […]
Since announcing its debut slate earlier this year, new digital-first/POD imprint Tor.com has been hard at work bringing exciting new shorter-length sci-fi and fantasy to market. With the first titles planned for release in the fall, more information is finally starting to leak out, including, this week, a raft of cover reveals from Irene Gallo’s […]