The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic

by F.T. Lukens

Overview

Desperate to pay for college, Bridger Whitt is willing to overlook the peculiarities of his new job—entering via the roof, the weird stacks of old books and even older scrolls, the seemingly incorporeal voices he hears from time to time—but its pretty hard to ignore being pulled under Lake Michigan by... mermaids? Worse yet, this happens in front of his new crush, Leo, the dreamy football star who just moved to town. Fantastic. When he discovers his eccentric employer Pavel Chudinov is an intermediary between the human world and its myths, Bridger is plunged into a world of pixies, werewolves, and Sasquatch. The realm of myths and magic is growing increasingly unstable, and it is up to Bridger to ascertain the cause of the chaos, eliminate the problem, and help his boss keep the real world from finding the world of myths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945053245
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/01/2017
Series:	The Rules , #1
Edition description:	None
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	423,185
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

F.T. Lukens is a New York Times bestselling author of YA speculative fiction including the novels So This Is Ever After, In Deeper Waters, and the forthcoming Spell Bound as well as other science-fiction and fantasy works. Their contemporary fantasy novel The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic was a 2017 Cybils Award finalist in YA Speculative Fiction, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Gold Winner for YA fiction, and won the Bisexual Book Award for Speculative Fiction. F.T. resides in North Carolina with their spouse, three kids, three dogs, and three cats.

Editorial Reviews

2017-08-07
Assisting an intermediary between the worlds of myths and humans is easier than asking the football hero to homecoming.High school senior Bridger Whitt is determined to escape humdrum Midden, Michigan, so he can finally be himself (read: determine his hetero-, homo-, or bisexuality far from familiar faces). When he is accepted by a Florida college, he realizes the only way he and his single mom can afford it is to fatten his coffers via part-time employment. Answering a very peculiar ad, he's hired to assist the terminally tackily attired Pavel Chudinov, who is charged with ensuring humans don't mix with cryptids. And the sudden abnormal influx of creatures in Midden (troll, unicorn, mermaids, etc.) has them burning the mythic candle at both ends. As if dodging toxic troll spit while maintaining his GPA wasn't challenge enough, Bridger must also contend with his burgeoning feelings for dreamy Puerto Rican neighbor Leo, who just might also be into him. Bridger, gal pal Astrid, and Pavel are white. The strength of the content, pace, and character cast outweigh intermittent and repetitive pronouncement of clichés or reminders of a character's weirdness. Bridger's inner turmoil over his sexuality is delivered as confusion not self-deprecation, and on the periphery, he gradually realizes that he's making a bigger deal out of it than any of his contemporaries. Creatures, comedy, and coming out: check. (Fantasy. 13-17)

Kirkus Reviews