The Way By, A Faire Tale by Holly Walters

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Book Info
Genre: Fantasy
Age Category: Young Adult
Number of Pages: 410 Pages
Publication Date: January 19, 2024
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Blurb
Fairies are real. Or they ought to be, at least, according to Madame Bel Carmen’s best
hypotheses. Her problem, however, is that after searching the world over for the lore to
prove it, she hasn’t uncovered anything that someone didn’t already know. Out of options,
she knows her only chance to prove the existence of the Fae is to find someone who’s met
them, and she’s just heard tell of a reclusive scholar who has reportedly done just that. This
folklorist is more than just withdrawn; she’s nowhere, an academic ghost known only by a
few obscure writings.

About the Author
Holly Walters originally hails from a small, rural, town in Minnesota. A life-long storyteller,
Holly is also a cultural anthropologist with a PhD from Brandeis University working in the
high Himalayas of Nepal. While her ethnographic work focuses on fossil folklores and sacred
ammonites in South Asia, her creative work pays homage to the dragons, unicorns, and fairy
tales of her youth.
When not writing, she can be found perfecting her Medieval archery skills, theorizing about
movie plots, and forgetting where she left her tea cup. Today, she makes her home in
Boston, Massachusetts, with a very unruly garden, a few equally cantankerous pets, a clever
spouse, and a resident house ghost. And since her creepy sculpture hobby hasn’t panned
out thus far, she is looking forward to the publication of her first novel and the writing of many
more.

My Review First off I won’t lie it took me a while to get into this, world building, back story, dragged for me a bit. But I stuck at it and I’m glad I did, I wouldn’t say this is ideal for fantasy beginners or if you want a quick easy read. Instead give it the time, the concentration and allow it to gather up it’s pace. Wonderfully descriptive so you will vividly imagine the characters and mythology. It will imbue itself into your everyday life, imagining them and seeing them so clearly, shame it had to end, after such a slow start for me. Like a tale of two halves. Wonderful description on liminal spaces, the in-between and use of pagan mythology. Well worth sticking at it and giving it a real go, you won’t regret it.