faerie
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Listeners fall for his roughed-up delivery—like a Yankee fan in a faerie realm—as they devour the steamy novels by Sarah J. Maas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Instead, they learn to sing the local language in a lovely faerie hymnal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
Lloyd-Jones uses her Welsh setting and its faerie mythos to great effect.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
The Mad Knight knew: “He leaves behind hot, dusty, tedious La Mancha and enters the realm of faerie by what amounts to a willed act of the imagination.”
From New York Times ● May 26, 2020
I meet my sisters in front of Madoc’s stables, where silver-shod faerie horses are penned up beside enormous toads ready to be saddled and bridled and reindeer with broad antlers hung with bells.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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The fictional characters of the Maasverse return this week with “A Court of Splintered Harmony,” the sixth book in the blockbuster series that has unspooled labyrinthine tales of pointy-eared faeries and bloodthirsty monsters since 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
It follows 19-year-old Feyre Archeron and her sisters as they are carried out of the human realm and into Prythian, a land ruled by dashing faeries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Then the prince’s former spymaster approaches Mer with a plan to steal the prince’s treasure, with a team of rogues that includes a corgi that might be a spy for the faeries.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
In one ear they had the hope-peddlers and centrist pundits whispering, like faeries or gods in some pre-Raphaelite painting, that everything would be fine and they should just keep sleeping.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2022
Prince Cardan, Locke, Valerian, and Nicasia are already sprawled in the grass with a few other faeries.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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