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faerie

[fay-uh-ree, fair-ee] / ˈfeɪ ə ri, ˈfɛər i /


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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

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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