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Even though Iโve had jobs where I recommend books to other people for close to two decades now, I still get excited to receive recommendations myself. I get most of them from friends and internet acquaintances, but occasionally I spy something online that also catches my interest.
That very thing happened the other day, as I was looking for information on an older title. I came across a discussion about upsetting fantasy books, and one jumped out at me, because the commenter said something about it ruining their life and upsetting them forever. SOLD! Thatโs my kind of read. And, as it happened, I had the book, You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce, already hiding in my stacks.
So I dug it out and Iโve started reading it, without spoiling it for myself by looking at the description. Iโm only fifty pages in, but it is clearly a very, very dark fairy tale, which made me think of other dark fairy tales I have read and about stories of bad fairies. And now, here we are. (Thank you for coming with me on this journey.)
We know not all fairies in literature are friendly and helpful. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell went up against an evil one. Tinker Bell was a petulant little imp, when she wanted to be. Fairies steal babies, play tricks, and generally cause mayhem. But the fairies in the three books below are really not nice.
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