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*I got this book from Amazon for free, as advertised by the website "BookBlast".
I seem to say this so much, but when you're as eclectic a reader as I am, you MUST often say, "This book is not for everyone." And believe me, it's not.
There is some violence, some vile descriptions, rawness, roughness, and lots of rednecks. However, I really enjoyed this book and it once again reminds me how when indie books are done well, they are a wonderful addition to writing culture at large.
Tash is quite the original mind, let me tell you. This book reminded me of a Holly Black book I once read, because that book too wasn't afraid to get down and dirty with fairy tale land. I don't think if I sat down to write for several hundred days I would ever think to combine fairies, trolls, roller derbies, rednecks, Amish and rock & roll.
Despite its rough and tumble nature, I was enchanted by the obviously lesbian protagonist (which would never happen in the traditional publishing industry) and her quiet and unassuming best friend Harlow. I'm so thankful that Tash took a chance and published this book herself, because the loss of it would be a crying shame!
If you like to read fantasy and fairy tale turned on its head, this is THE BOOK FOR YOU! Strap yourself in and enjoy the rocky ride!
I seem to say this so much, but when you're as eclectic a reader as I am, you MUST often say, "This book is not for everyone." And believe me, it's not.
There is some violence, some vile descriptions, rawness, roughness, and lots of rednecks. However, I really enjoyed this book and it once again reminds me how when indie books are done well, they are a wonderful addition to writing culture at large.
Tash is quite the original mind, let me tell you. This book reminded me of a Holly Black book I once read, because that book too wasn't afraid to get down and dirty with fairy tale land. I don't think if I sat down to write for several hundred days I would ever think to combine fairies, trolls, roller derbies, rednecks, Amish and rock & roll.
Despite its rough and tumble nature, I was enchanted by the obviously lesbian protagonist (which would never happen in the traditional publishing industry) and her quiet and unassuming best friend Harlow. I'm so thankful that Tash took a chance and published this book herself, because the loss of it would be a crying shame!
If you like to read fantasy and fairy tale turned on its head, this is THE BOOK FOR YOU! Strap yourself in and enjoy the rocky ride!
I really wasn't sure what to expect coming into this book. The story turned out to be nothing like I expected. There are so many twists and turns, it fells very jumpy at times. I enjoyed it but it is definitely an acquired taste.
I like Deb and her spunky attitude. She is a bit of a tough girl, she is also a lesbian, which is rather vague for most of the book. It is said more in insults to her clothes and general demeanor, she makes mention of it herself, but it was such a passing comment you almost miss it. I enjoyed her narrative, she really is a sassy little thing. It must be a huge thing to discover you are not who you thought and everything around you is not what it seems.
Harlow is the other half of the narrative, he is a great character. I loved his snarky troll thoughts. He is just trudging along and then bang, life smacks him in the face. It takes time to really get into who he is and how her grew up. Once you get all the details, the murky story comes together.
The supporting cast is mostly bad guys, but hey, they are the meat of this tale. As things develop you see how Deb and Harlow have had to grow in a really negative atmosphere. The skating isn't key until later in the story, I thought there would be more roller derby throughout. Perhaps in the next book.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Stephanie Bentley, who is incredible! She is seriously talented and at one point I really thought there must be two narrators. The Harlow sections are so well done, I actually had to check and see if they were being done by a man. Such a fantastic job of changing the tone and keeping the read consistent. Her energy feeds into the action of the story and the emotions come through vibrantly. I am such a fan of her read, I am going to go see what else she has ASAP! Another one for my stalking...um following list.
I was intrigued by this story and thought if flowed nicely. It does tend to go off on what appear to be tangents, they are connected but at the time they just felt like rambling. Still, I am very interested in seeing what is next for this series. It is a very modern sort of fairy tale, in the gritty traditions of the Brothers Grimm.
Disclosure - I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts, opinions and ratings are my own.
I like Deb and her spunky attitude. She is a bit of a tough girl, she is also a lesbian, which is rather vague for most of the book. It is said more in insults to her clothes and general demeanor, she makes mention of it herself, but it was such a passing comment you almost miss it. I enjoyed her narrative, she really is a sassy little thing. It must be a huge thing to discover you are not who you thought and everything around you is not what it seems.
Harlow is the other half of the narrative, he is a great character. I loved his snarky troll thoughts. He is just trudging along and then bang, life smacks him in the face. It takes time to really get into who he is and how her grew up. Once you get all the details, the murky story comes together.
The supporting cast is mostly bad guys, but hey, they are the meat of this tale. As things develop you see how Deb and Harlow have had to grow in a really negative atmosphere. The skating isn't key until later in the story, I thought there would be more roller derby throughout. Perhaps in the next book.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Stephanie Bentley, who is incredible! She is seriously talented and at one point I really thought there must be two narrators. The Harlow sections are so well done, I actually had to check and see if they were being done by a man. Such a fantastic job of changing the tone and keeping the read consistent. Her energy feeds into the action of the story and the emotions come through vibrantly. I am such a fan of her read, I am going to go see what else she has ASAP! Another one for my stalking...um following list.
I was intrigued by this story and thought if flowed nicely. It does tend to go off on what appear to be tangents, they are connected but at the time they just felt like rambling. Still, I am very interested in seeing what is next for this series. It is a very modern sort of fairy tale, in the gritty traditions of the Brothers Grimm.
Disclosure - I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts, opinions and ratings are my own.
2.5 stars. Great concept, intriguing ideas for characters, but some writing quirks kept me from being able to get absorbed in the storyline. Many of the scene changes relied on characters blacking out in one way or another. And the emotional responses-- mostly laughter; even when the situation seemed too tense to call for amusement, the characters responded to each other by laughing. There was also little urgency to the story's pace, which felt odd considering that the beginning of the adventure was based on the disappearance of a "protected" sister.
So, I finished Troll or Derby today, and then I slammed two double rum and cokes to stop my shaking. I also got out my tobacco and chain-smoked two ciggies in a row. It's times like this when I wish I was sane, and that books didn't have so much power over me. But I completely lost it over my feelings of betrayal for how badly this book turned out in the end.
I started off loving this story, praising it with every chapter update I did on Twitter. And then right around the 50% mark, it all went horribly, terribly pear-shaped. I kept reading, hoping that it was just a minor stumble, and the book would get back on track. But with each page, I got more and more upset. I started sighing with EVERY paragraph, and by the time I got done, I was grinding my dentures so hard, I gave myself blisters on my gums.
Troll or Derby starts off great, following two characters in first person POV, Deb and Harlow. Deb is a young fairy who thinks she's human. After saving her drug addict sister from a fire in a drug dealer's trailer, she quickly finds out her mother is a foster parent, and that she's a protector who's supposed to be assigned to watch her foster sister. Since her sister, Gennifer, gets kidnapped right at the start of the book, Deb is kicked out of the house and told she must save her sister, OR ELSE.
The other half of the book is told by Harlow, a troll who is bound to Deb. Harlow's cousin Dave is the person who kidnapped Gennifer for his father Jagger, and Dave is also a drug dealer, a rapist, a murderer, and a child molester. He's about as charming as he sounds, believe me. Dave is trying to capture Deb, and Harlow is trying to protect Deb, though he's not really sure why at first.
The first 20 chapters, I was so hooked into this plot. The world building was great. The characters had my sympathy, and the dialogue was fantastic. Every little detail about the mystical world set in the Midwest felt fresh and exciting. But around the midway point, the whole thing falls apart. It starts with Harlow being completely incapable of answering simple questions, and his chapters start to feel like padding rather than advancing the story. Even when he says "I'll answer your questions," he fails to answer the two most important ones Deb kept asking. And there was never a valid reason given for his inability to play her straight.
But then Deb becomes hands down one of the stupidest characters I've ever read. At the midway point, she's been told no less than five times that she isn't human. She's fought trolls, slid through teleportation spells, journeyed to a troll market, fought pixies, and knocked out a troll. (resulting in her getting iron poisoning, more signs of her inhuman nature. Oh, and she shrinks and grows during this same fight.) AND YET, despite all this evidence that she's not human, she's still going "Wait, what? Is this real? Am I really not human? Am I on drugs?" Despite being hunted by a villain she's been told is pure evil, Deb abandons Harlow and goes directly to the villain alone. This is the point when I started shaking my head and asking, "But why? Even small children have more common sense than this."
Deb is repeatedly told, "Don't drink or eat anything offered by the fae." She even gets told by the villain, "Drink this so I can control your mind." And despite thinking, "I probably shouldn't," SHE STILL DOES ANYWAY.
Thing get worse. While Harlow's padded chapters seem to take place in one day, Deb's chapters speak of weeks of training for roller derby. Why roller derby? Because the author is a former roller girl, and she's writing what she knows. It makes ZERO sense in the context of the story. This whole story could have been better served without the roller derby angle. It would be like me writing a book where a fairy must use their skills as a computer technician to save the world, just because I used to be a compute technician. This may actually be a case for forgetting what you know and just stick with making stuff up.
And, while I'm complaining, Deb abandons Harlow, her only ally, not because of any valid reasons, but because she "needs a skating fix." Now folks, I'm addicted to writing. But if my sister were in danger and I was being hunted by half my town, I don't believe I'd step out on my only ally so I could jot down notes for a new book. And I certainly wouldn't go to the evil dude who owns half the town to ask him "Can you help me work on a new outline?" From here on out, because of her vapid decision making, I actively hated Deb.
The second half of the book has the time displacement issue I mentioned, but the dialogue falls apart as quickly as the world logic and the character consistency. The violent nature of the fae in this would have seemed more fitting for a big city full of fae gangs, where death and disappearances are taken for granted. But this is a small town, and I just didn't buy it. At one point, Harlow mentions that Jagger runs the church, and that the people who go in never leave. But no one ever notices all these disappearances. Being that I have lived in small towns my whole life, where nothing is a secret for very long, the idea that these fae had been acting this violently for years without trouble...it just didn't ring true.
I also didn't buy how much of the town was trolls, fae, or some hybrid of the two. If there's so much supernatural stuff living in town, why bother hiding at all? The story went from feeling realistic for the setting to being so over the top that I couldn't help but sigh with every new character introduced who (shock of shocks) wasn't human.
And then there's a minor gripe about removed teeth. Harlow takes two of Deb's wisdom teeth to make a marriage pact. That's not the problem. The problem is, despite having two holes in her gums, Deb eats normal food right after. Deb has two gaping holes in her gums, but goes all out rollerskating. Deb spits a lot. "But why is this a big deal?" you say. Because after having wisdom teeth removed, you can't eat solid food for a week or two. You can't do heavy physical activity without risking rupturing the growing blood vessels in the sockets, and you're advised by the dentist not to spit because doing so draws out the newly forming gum flesh and results in dry sockets. Now okay, maybe I'm only aware of this because I not only had my wisdom teeth pried out, but also had 23 extractions done in the same surgery. But the fact is, this is all online in dental surgery after-care pages. It's basic research, information that would be easy to look up. And it's just one more part of the story that irked me because the whole thing becomes so lazy in the second half.
When the book heads for a final confrontation, it's a visually confusing mess made even worse by the villain, Jagger, talking "evil" but mostly coming off as a moron. I want to give bonus points for a Muppets reference late in the game, but only a few sentences later, I was screaming "WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS?" Not even the arrival of a badass black unicorn can save this ending.
I know people probably think I'm exaggerating, but after finishing this, I was so upset by how badly it turned out that I slammed two mixed drink drinks and cried while I shook and hugged myself. I'm pretty sure sane people don't react to bad endings like this, and I'm relatively sure they wouldn't have as many problems as I do with the inconsistencies in this story. I had to spend almost an hour telling myself "It's only a book." Out loud. Over and over. Pretty sure your mileage will vary.
The last time I felt this betrayed by a book was Shiver, and for much the same reason. It had a great introduction, great characters, and dialogue that cracks and made me laugh out loud. And for me, it's a much bigger sin to have a book start out great only to end dismally than it is for a book to be consistently weak from start to finish. But I didn't even get this upset over Shiver as I did at this, because it failed on all counts when it had all been going so great.
Despite loving the first half, I'm forced to give Troll or Derby 2 stars. I wish I could say something more positive, but I really haven't felt this betrayed by a story in a long time.
I started off loving this story, praising it with every chapter update I did on Twitter. And then right around the 50% mark, it all went horribly, terribly pear-shaped. I kept reading, hoping that it was just a minor stumble, and the book would get back on track. But with each page, I got more and more upset. I started sighing with EVERY paragraph, and by the time I got done, I was grinding my dentures so hard, I gave myself blisters on my gums.
Troll or Derby starts off great, following two characters in first person POV, Deb and Harlow. Deb is a young fairy who thinks she's human. After saving her drug addict sister from a fire in a drug dealer's trailer, she quickly finds out her mother is a foster parent, and that she's a protector who's supposed to be assigned to watch her foster sister. Since her sister, Gennifer, gets kidnapped right at the start of the book, Deb is kicked out of the house and told she must save her sister, OR ELSE.
The other half of the book is told by Harlow, a troll who is bound to Deb. Harlow's cousin Dave is the person who kidnapped Gennifer for his father Jagger, and Dave is also a drug dealer, a rapist, a murderer, and a child molester. He's about as charming as he sounds, believe me. Dave is trying to capture Deb, and Harlow is trying to protect Deb, though he's not really sure why at first.
The first 20 chapters, I was so hooked into this plot. The world building was great. The characters had my sympathy, and the dialogue was fantastic. Every little detail about the mystical world set in the Midwest felt fresh and exciting. But around the midway point, the whole thing falls apart. It starts with Harlow being completely incapable of answering simple questions, and his chapters start to feel like padding rather than advancing the story. Even when he says "I'll answer your questions," he fails to answer the two most important ones Deb kept asking. And there was never a valid reason given for his inability to play her straight.
But then Deb becomes hands down one of the stupidest characters I've ever read. At the midway point, she's been told no less than five times that she isn't human. She's fought trolls, slid through teleportation spells, journeyed to a troll market, fought pixies, and knocked out a troll. (resulting in her getting iron poisoning, more signs of her inhuman nature. Oh, and she shrinks and grows during this same fight.) AND YET, despite all this evidence that she's not human, she's still going "Wait, what? Is this real? Am I really not human? Am I on drugs?" Despite being hunted by a villain she's been told is pure evil, Deb abandons Harlow and goes directly to the villain alone. This is the point when I started shaking my head and asking, "But why? Even small children have more common sense than this."
Deb is repeatedly told, "Don't drink or eat anything offered by the fae." She even gets told by the villain, "Drink this so I can control your mind." And despite thinking, "I probably shouldn't," SHE STILL DOES ANYWAY.
Thing get worse. While Harlow's padded chapters seem to take place in one day, Deb's chapters speak of weeks of training for roller derby. Why roller derby? Because the author is a former roller girl, and she's writing what she knows. It makes ZERO sense in the context of the story. This whole story could have been better served without the roller derby angle. It would be like me writing a book where a fairy must use their skills as a computer technician to save the world, just because I used to be a compute technician. This may actually be a case for forgetting what you know and just stick with making stuff up.
And, while I'm complaining, Deb abandons Harlow, her only ally, not because of any valid reasons, but because she "needs a skating fix." Now folks, I'm addicted to writing. But if my sister were in danger and I was being hunted by half my town, I don't believe I'd step out on my only ally so I could jot down notes for a new book. And I certainly wouldn't go to the evil dude who owns half the town to ask him "Can you help me work on a new outline?" From here on out, because of her vapid decision making, I actively hated Deb.
The second half of the book has the time displacement issue I mentioned, but the dialogue falls apart as quickly as the world logic and the character consistency. The violent nature of the fae in this would have seemed more fitting for a big city full of fae gangs, where death and disappearances are taken for granted. But this is a small town, and I just didn't buy it. At one point, Harlow mentions that Jagger runs the church, and that the people who go in never leave. But no one ever notices all these disappearances. Being that I have lived in small towns my whole life, where nothing is a secret for very long, the idea that these fae had been acting this violently for years without trouble...it just didn't ring true.
I also didn't buy how much of the town was trolls, fae, or some hybrid of the two. If there's so much supernatural stuff living in town, why bother hiding at all? The story went from feeling realistic for the setting to being so over the top that I couldn't help but sigh with every new character introduced who (shock of shocks) wasn't human.
And then there's a minor gripe about removed teeth. Harlow takes two of Deb's wisdom teeth to make a marriage pact. That's not the problem. The problem is, despite having two holes in her gums, Deb eats normal food right after. Deb has two gaping holes in her gums, but goes all out rollerskating. Deb spits a lot. "But why is this a big deal?" you say. Because after having wisdom teeth removed, you can't eat solid food for a week or two. You can't do heavy physical activity without risking rupturing the growing blood vessels in the sockets, and you're advised by the dentist not to spit because doing so draws out the newly forming gum flesh and results in dry sockets. Now okay, maybe I'm only aware of this because I not only had my wisdom teeth pried out, but also had 23 extractions done in the same surgery. But the fact is, this is all online in dental surgery after-care pages. It's basic research, information that would be easy to look up. And it's just one more part of the story that irked me because the whole thing becomes so lazy in the second half.
When the book heads for a final confrontation, it's a visually confusing mess made even worse by the villain, Jagger, talking "evil" but mostly coming off as a moron. I want to give bonus points for a Muppets reference late in the game, but only a few sentences later, I was screaming "WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS?" Not even the arrival of a badass black unicorn can save this ending.
I know people probably think I'm exaggerating, but after finishing this, I was so upset by how badly it turned out that I slammed two mixed drink drinks and cried while I shook and hugged myself. I'm pretty sure sane people don't react to bad endings like this, and I'm relatively sure they wouldn't have as many problems as I do with the inconsistencies in this story. I had to spend almost an hour telling myself "It's only a book." Out loud. Over and over. Pretty sure your mileage will vary.
The last time I felt this betrayed by a book was Shiver, and for much the same reason. It had a great introduction, great characters, and dialogue that cracks and made me laugh out loud. And for me, it's a much bigger sin to have a book start out great only to end dismally than it is for a book to be consistently weak from start to finish. But I didn't even get this upset over Shiver as I did at this, because it failed on all counts when it had all been going so great.
Despite loving the first half, I'm forced to give Troll or Derby 2 stars. I wish I could say something more positive, but I really haven't felt this betrayed by a story in a long time.
It's been a while since I read this book. I don't remember it that clearly anymore, which is the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars - the story didn't leave a lasting impression. But I do remember that I enjoyed reading it. It's quite different from anything else I've read, which is great. I loved the main character, Deb. She's feisty and tough, and also sometimes scared and naive. I always recommend it to my friends when they want something different.
4½ stars. Red Tash does a wonderful job creating her world of Trolls and Fairies. Written with detail, it is a great book with suspense and some scenes that made me cringe. AS for Harlow and Deb. I love how their relationship is developing. I will definitely read the next book!
Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roller Derby
"Interrogating a pixie isn't as fun as it sounds. I tried
to keep it nice, but the little guys are vicious biters, and
I may have squished one."
Roller Deb is 15, she lives in a trailer with her mom who despises her, her home-coming queen sister, and she's the target of town bullies.
When her sister is kidnapped by the local mafia she finds help from an unlikely source.
Harlow is a troll who doesn't remember his past. All he knows is he has to protect Roller Deb and together they embark on a mission to rescue Deb's sister and overthrow the local mob boss.
Troll or Derby has it all...it's got trolls and fairies, gangsters, roller derby, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It's a dystopian fairy tale that's great fun and completely addictive.
Many thanks to Red Tash in conjunction with The Indie Bookshelf for providing me with a review copy of this book.
...I just wanna say, that is one of the best covers I've seen this year!
"Interrogating a pixie isn't as fun as it sounds. I tried
to keep it nice, but the little guys are vicious biters, and
I may have squished one."
Roller Deb is 15, she lives in a trailer with her mom who despises her, her home-coming queen sister, and she's the target of town bullies.
When her sister is kidnapped by the local mafia she finds help from an unlikely source.
Harlow is a troll who doesn't remember his past. All he knows is he has to protect Roller Deb and together they embark on a mission to rescue Deb's sister and overthrow the local mob boss.
Troll or Derby has it all...it's got trolls and fairies, gangsters, roller derby, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It's a dystopian fairy tale that's great fun and completely addictive.
Many thanks to Red Tash in conjunction with The Indie Bookshelf for providing me with a review copy of this book.
...I just wanna say, that is one of the best covers I've seen this year!
Deb (aka Roller Deb) is an outcast that looks after her drug addict sister, Gennifer. The book starts with Deb saving her sister from a burning trailer and quickly escalates to other events that kept my on my toes. When Gennifer goes missing, Deb goes to rescue her from the drug dealer boyfriend Dave. In Deb's adventure to save Gennifer, she meets Harlow, a hunky troll that I couldn't get enough (more Harlow please!).
Harlow is drawn to Deb from the first second he lays eyes on her. When he finally catches up to Roller Deb he helps her find her way throughout the paranormal aspects of the world she never knew existed. I absolutely loved Harlow's character; he's the sexy, quiet guy that isn't afraid to get his hands dirty to save his woman. So pretty much he's the guy that every woman wants in their life.
I was so happy while reading because Red Tash mixed it up and had alternating points of view each chapter between Deb and Harlow. This allowed me to get a more well rounded view of the main characters and how both of them think versus how they act. Troll or Derby is one of the most unique books I've ever read. It effortlessly blends roller derby, romance, finding oneself, rescue and more in a tidy package. I found myself flipping the pages and saying "just one more chapter" so I could see what would happen next. If you enjoy paranormal books, Troll or Derby is a must buy.
Harlow is drawn to Deb from the first second he lays eyes on her. When he finally catches up to Roller Deb he helps her find her way throughout the paranormal aspects of the world she never knew existed. I absolutely loved Harlow's character; he's the sexy, quiet guy that isn't afraid to get his hands dirty to save his woman. So pretty much he's the guy that every woman wants in their life.
I was so happy while reading because Red Tash mixed it up and had alternating points of view each chapter between Deb and Harlow. This allowed me to get a more well rounded view of the main characters and how both of them think versus how they act. Troll or Derby is one of the most unique books I've ever read. It effortlessly blends roller derby, romance, finding oneself, rescue and more in a tidy package. I found myself flipping the pages and saying "just one more chapter" so I could see what would happen next. If you enjoy paranormal books, Troll or Derby is a must buy.
Self-published books are more of a lottery than most. You never know whether you're going to be reading a [b:Fluency|22566044|Fluency (Confluence, #1)|Jennifer Foehner Wells|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403451883s/22566044.jpg|42028608], a [b:The Martian|18007564|The Martian|Andy Weir|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1413706054s/18007564.jpg|21825181], a [b:The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet|22733729|The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet|Becky Chambers|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1405532474s/22733729.jpg|42270825] or something written by a high-school kid with a poor grasp of spelling and grammar.
This one falls somewhere in that range slightly closer to the good end than the bad. The copy-editing was competent, but the book itself needed another couple of drafts in my opinion. The plot is confused and becomes even more twisted towards the end. Many fairly major details are raised and then just left hanging (like what is Deb's sexuality?)
The basic gist of it is that faeries/trolls etc live alongside humans appearing relatively normal via glamour. There's something involving the Amish and the magic folk, but this is one of the many things that just isn't explained. The main characters are a changeling fairy and a protector troll who have a complicated and unknown intertwined family history. The bad guys are mainly trolls who are also part of the complicated family history, but are also heavily involved in organized crime. And part of that organized crime is roller derby match (bout?) fixing. Of course it is.
This one falls somewhere in that range slightly closer to the good end than the bad. The copy-editing was competent, but the book itself needed another couple of drafts in my opinion. The plot is confused and becomes even more twisted towards the end. Many fairly major details are raised and then just left hanging (like what is Deb's sexuality?)
The basic gist of it is that faeries/trolls etc live alongside humans appearing relatively normal via glamour. There's something involving the Amish and the magic folk, but this is one of the many things that just isn't explained. The main characters are a changeling fairy and a protector troll who have a complicated and unknown intertwined family history. The bad guys are mainly trolls who are also part of the complicated family history, but are also heavily involved in organized crime. And part of that organized crime is roller derby match (bout?) fixing. Of course it is.
Wow... Its been a while since books have yanked me in so far, that I almost have to pull myself back into the real world. Between [b:Lady of the Veils|13616750|Lady of the Veils|M.L. John|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1335370326s/13616750.jpg|19218707] and Troll or Derby, I've been reminded of why the very idea of Urban Fantasy, by my definition, appeals to me.
The reader is in for a unique, one of a kind trip out of the world we know and into a world filled with variations of the fairy world we all know and love. The trip Red Tash takes the reader on is fast paced and filled with action. Each switch between Deb and Harlow leaves you wanting to know more of what you'd left, before trapping you in where you're going. While different, I enjoyed the approach of switching back and forth, as the first person view gives you insight into both of these interesting characters that wouldn't be possible in any other writing style.
I picked up the book last night and started it this morning in bed. Each time I put it down was only because I had to be pulled to other things, literally forcing me to put the book down. Being out and about didn't stop me however from finishing it up when I could.
To say I enjoyed the book is putting it lightly. I truly loved this story.
The reader is in for a unique, one of a kind trip out of the world we know and into a world filled with variations of the fairy world we all know and love. The trip Red Tash takes the reader on is fast paced and filled with action. Each switch between Deb and Harlow leaves you wanting to know more of what you'd left, before trapping you in where you're going. While different, I enjoyed the approach of switching back and forth, as the first person view gives you insight into both of these interesting characters that wouldn't be possible in any other writing style.
I picked up the book last night and started it this morning in bed. Each time I put it down was only because I had to be pulled to other things, literally forcing me to put the book down. Being out and about didn't stop me however from finishing it up when I could.
To say I enjoyed the book is putting it lightly. I truly loved this story.