![]() ![]() And this time, they have something other than fun and games planned. It isn’t easy to fit in, especially when the faeries start appearing to Kaye again. ![]() It isn’t easy, when everyone remembers her as the little girl who told stories about her imaginary friends – faeries she really remembers playing with, though no one else could see them. Kaye, meanwhile, just wants to fit in with her old friend Janet’s crowd. Her mother wants Kaye to do whatever she wants to do. Kaye’s grandmother wants the girl to go to school and prepare for a better life than her mother has. ![]() They end up moving back to her grandmother’s house in a decaying city on the New Jersey shore, and trying to start over. It’s a life many of us fantasize about (or did when we were younger), until another member of the band attempts to murder Kaye’s mom. It comes of growing up in the entourage of a rock band, taking care of her not-so-motherly mother, and working full-time at a Chinese restaurant instead of going to school. Its world is like that of Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely, only without all the body art and piercings. Mature teens may also enjoy her solo ventures, such as this “Modern Faerie Tale.” Brace yourself, though: it’s a dark, gritty brand of faerie tale, with the type of mature themes and off-color language that call for a parental guidance advisory. Younger readers may know Holly Black for her work on the Spiderwick Chronicles with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi. ![]()
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