faerie
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The books follow Feyre Archeron in the faerie lands of Prythian and her love story with the High Lord of the Night Court, Rhysand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
The show took over St. Ann’s Warehouse, in Brooklyn, in a 24-hour-long “radical faerie realness ritual sacrifice” that amounted to a transcendent artistic and political gesture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Lloyd-Jones uses her Welsh setting and its faerie mythos to great effect.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
Anyone who knows their way around faerie tales knows you need to be cautious with old women in the woods.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2022
It would be nice to say that I smiled and spoke of pleasant things in carefully metered rhyming couplets, like Prince Gallant from some faerie story.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
It may seem like a revolutionary strategy to retreat to the gardens of the faeries, to unplug and go off the grid.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2019
They’ll want to chat — faeries are a chipper lot — but it’s best to get inside the pub’s doors before one gets led astray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2018
A large table dominates the room, and sitting at it are two faeries I’ve never met—both of them gazing at me unhappily.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
