Fair Peril is a romping mixture of myth and magic and modern angst. Nancy Springer creates a provocative story that has you laughing out-loud while at the same time shaking your head with serious consideration to life's dilemmas. Her storytelling is robust with enchantments and insight, sympathetic heroes and likeable villains, and the time-honored beauty of a mother and daughter reunited in love.
Fair Peril is a classic that I'll be reading again. Nancy Springer is a storyteller who has learned the art of overstatement without tedium. I laughed at LeeVon, the leather-clad and bodily-pierced gay librarian who found himself transfrogrifried, and searching for his own prince. I loved to dislike Prentis, the ex, who fell victim to a misspelling and floated off in a nasty smelling fog. These characters, and all the rest, built this story and made it a terrific book for a rainy afternoon. Fair Peril is most definitely a keeper.
About the Book
Fair Peril copyright 1996 by Nancy Springer
A AvoNova book published by Avon Books New York
Paperback July 1997; ISBN: 0-380-79430-6
Sites of Interest - Fairy Tales
- Grimm's Fairy Tales - electronic texts of 209 tales collected by the brothers Grimm
- Russian Fairy Tales
- Folklore and Mythology - electronic texts
- Fairy Tales: Origins and Evolution
- Faeries
- and of course Suite101's own Folklore - Virginia Marin editor
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