This week over at the Fantasy Review Barn we are once again tough travelling with our trusty guide Nathan.  This week our topic for discussion is FAE

Surprisingly not in the Tough Guide.  How can this be?  Fairies are a constant in the fantasy world and it is time they get their own week.  Give us your Fae, be they sweet or nasty.

1. The Rebel Angel series by Gillian Philip – sithe – some of these are nice (Seth) – some not so much (Kate McNiven)
2. Dreamer’s Pool by Juliet Marillier – good old fashioned style fae, tricky, beautiful, ethereal – be careful what you agree to.
3. Tithe/Valiant and Ironside by Holly Black – I loved this series and it’s the first I read that portrayed the fae as maybe not always so nice!
4. The Tiffany Aching Series by Terry Pratchett – first the Wee Free Men, a type of fae (pictsies??) and then in the Wintersmith Tiffany gets embroiled with fae – if I remember correctly??  Maybe it wasn’t this book – doh – Nathan, chuck me a bone??
5. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – ‘methought I was enamoured of an ass!’  Full of Fairies – The King and Queen of the fae no less not to mention pesky Puck.
6. Alex Bledsoe’s The Hum and the Shiver – appalachian fae – a unique read.  Very good.
7. The Blue Girl by Charles deLint – ghosts and fae in Newford Town – I’ve only read the one from Newford but I do intend to return.
8. Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely series – great books

Can I say the elves from LotR – and perhaps somebody can help me out here – are elves sort of related, in a far removed kind of way, to fae??  Or no????