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A review by bickleyhouse
Fairy Metal Thunder by J.L. Bryan
4.0
This was a charming story of some high school kids who would be rock musicians. Their struggling local rock band is about to split up and part ways, after a failed audition at a club in a larger city. But then Jason, the guitar player, follows a goblin who has stolen some jewelry from his mother's jewel cabinet. He follows the goblin into the fairly world (through a door in a tree in the back yard of a woman who later turns out to be a Gate Guard), where he catches him and persuades him to give back some of the jewelry he has stolen.
While Jason is waiting, he hears some beautiful music being played. He observes some fairy musicians playing for a group of human kids! The human children are dancing vigorously to the music. After the music is over, the children collapse, exhausted, and slowly disappear back into their own world.
The fae musicians then take a break, leaving their instruments unattended. Jason sneaks over and steals the instruments, and runs all the way back to the tree, forgetting the goblin and jewelry. This is where the "fun" starts, as Jason and his bandmates discover the special characteristics of the fae instruments.
Of course, Queen Mab is not happy, once she realizes the instruments are gone.
It's a fun story, written for a YA or juvenile audience, with virtually no objectionable material (unless you don't like "fairy tales," in which case you wouldn't be reading anyway). Also, it is part one of a series, and it just so happens that the ebook includes part two, called Fairy Blues.
While Jason is waiting, he hears some beautiful music being played. He observes some fairy musicians playing for a group of human kids! The human children are dancing vigorously to the music. After the music is over, the children collapse, exhausted, and slowly disappear back into their own world.
The fae musicians then take a break, leaving their instruments unattended. Jason sneaks over and steals the instruments, and runs all the way back to the tree, forgetting the goblin and jewelry. This is where the "fun" starts, as Jason and his bandmates discover the special characteristics of the fae instruments.
Of course, Queen Mab is not happy, once she realizes the instruments are gone.
It's a fun story, written for a YA or juvenile audience, with virtually no objectionable material (unless you don't like "fairy tales," in which case you wouldn't be reading anyway). Also, it is part one of a series, and it just so happens that the ebook includes part two, called Fairy Blues.