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Foul is Fair (Fair Folk Chronicles Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Jeffrey Cook (Author), Katherine Perkins (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Lots of girls play Fairy Princess when they're little. Megan O'Reilly had no idea the real thing was like playing chess, guitar, and hockey all at once. Megan had known for a long time that she wasn't an entirely typical girl. But living with ADHD—and her mother's obsessions—was a very different thing from finding out she wasn't entirely human. Somewhere out there, in a completely different world, her father needs help. There's a conflict, revolving around Faerie seasonal rituals, that could have consequences for humanity—and if Megan's getting the terminology straight, it sounds like her family aren't even supposed to be the good guys. As she's further and further swept up in trying to save her father, Megan may be getting too good at not being human.
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    Fair Folk Chronicles
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  5. Publication date
    May 8, 2015
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"Cook and Perkins begin this first book of the Fair Folk Chronicles series with steady fantasy beats that should appeal to
fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and even older classics, such as T.H. White's The Once and Future King (1958).
A rousing series opener, enabled by an adorable cast and a superb trove of faerie folklore."

-Kirkus Indie Reviews

About the Author

Jeffrey Cook lives in Maple Valley, Washington, with his wife and three large dogs. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived all over the United States. He's the author of the Dawn of Steam trilogy of alternate-history/emergent Steampunk epistolary novels and of the YA Sci-fi thriller Mina Cortez: From Bouquets to Bullets. He's a founding contributing author of Writerpunk Press and has also contributed to a number of role-playing game books for Deep7 Press out of Seattle. When not reading, researching, or writing, Jeffrey enjoys role-playing games and watching football. Katherine Perkins lives in Coralville, Iowa, with her husband and one extremely skittish cat. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and will defend its cuisine on any field of honor. She is the editor of the Dawn of Steam series and serves as Jeff's co-author of various short stories, including those for the charity anthologies of Writerpunk Press. When not reading, researching, writing, or editing, she tries to remember what she was supposed to be doing.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00XDPIA7O
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (May 8, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 8, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1595 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 197 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1511834447
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    Author Jeffrey Cook lives in Maple Valley, Washington, with his wife and three large dogs. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived all over the United States. He's contributed to a number of role-playing game books for Deep7 Press out of Seattle, Washington, but the Dawn of Steam series are his first novels. When not reading, researching or writing, Jeffrey enjoys role-playing games and watching football.

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    Katherine Perkins lives wherever the road of a Visiting Assistant Professor's family takes her, her husband, and one extremely skittish cat. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and will defend its cuisine on any field of honor. She is the editor of Jeffrey Cook's Dawn of Steam series and serves as Jeff’s co-author for the YA Fantasy Fair Folk Chronicles (beginning with Foul is Fair) and various short stories, including those for the charity anthologies of Writerpunk Press. When not reading, researching, writing, editing, or occasionally helping in the transcription of Braille songbooks, she tries to remember what she was supposed to be doing.

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S. Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone is going to love this book!
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2016
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When Megan discovers her dad - as well as her best friend - are mythical, she takes it all in one stride: she's got a quest to follow! She has her father to save, let alone the whole world, the balance of which rests upon him being able to attend a dance that changes the seasons. She's focused and determined, even without her medication, and she's ready to take on this challenge if it means making things right for the world.

Megan is a skilled artist (thought she might be addicted to doodling) and begins to slowly see the power of music and signing. She's got a knack for it, which some might call a little magic. I loved Megan as a character, and her friend Lani just as much. Their friendship is a powerful drive in Megan's life and gives her strength and determination, as well as support as her world is turned on her head. And I'm such a sucker for female friendships in great novels.

My favorite characters, however, were not the main ones: no, I loved Cassia and Ashling a whole lot. Ashling might be my favorite pixie of all time: she's sassy, funny, and crazy witty. Not to mention she's technically living with a pixie disability, and her 'service animal' is a crow named Count who's a personality all to himself. I've NEVER read a book like this before! Ashling's comedic responses to Megan's whole slew of questions - especially her variety of answers as to why Count is names Count or where fairies come from - had me rolling on the floor laughing.

While some parts of the novel were exposition heavy, I found the overall creativity of the novel to make up for that. I loved the use of other myths from around the world that I had never heard of: Lani, for example, is part Menehune, which (I only just learned this) is a myth from Hawaii. This gives her a talent for engineering and creating things.

To recap all the amazing things about this book: great representation, love of art and music, love of science and creativity, the world of Faerie, myths from around the world, great adventure... and did I mention it's a great read for any age?

And it worked! I ended up by starting to google "Menehune"and spend a few hours just browsing the interwebs, using this book as a guide. And I learned so much!

If you want a fun and creative take on the world of Faerie, then you're going to love Foul is Fair. There are four books to this series, all available on amazon.
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Margaret F.
4.0 out of 5 stars A fun adventure with complex characters and great world building
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2020
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This book throws you in at the deep end of a surreal world until you’re not sure what’s real and what are hallucinations thanks to the main character having some form of an attention disorder. We are first introduced to Megan through her pill regime and her best friend’s concerns about the side effects. We can see the deadening of her personality ourselves, even though we just met her.

That’s not where things get strange, however. No, it’s Lani, her BFF, who gives us the hint things are more complex than it appears when she goes off and talks to a pixie.

Turns out the fantastical elements are not hallucinations at all, which is the start of a wild adventure through human and faerie lands. They are trying to rescue the father who left Megan when she was only two years old. Before you think he’s a human caught up in a fae game, though, we quickly learn he’s the king of the unseelie and the crisis is more than only court politics.

This is a personal story of a band of unlikely friends (Megan and Lani pick up a few on the way) going on an adventure to save the world. The characters are well described by both action and narrative, coming alive in distinct ways. They represent a few cultures, human and not, as well as gender politics and abilities. But before you think this is a politically charged book, one aspect I enjoyed was how their differences came up in context and were normalized even when, for example, a satyress had to explain what pansexual meant to Megan. Humor is also used to make the characters come alive, especially in demonstrating the strength of Megan and Lani’s friendship, a tough task considering Lani has hidden the truth from Megan the whole time they knew each other because of Restrictions.

Beyond the strong characterizations, the world is grounded in the personal backstory of Megan’s mother and Celtic myth, along with mention of other beings connected to different cultures as well. Lani is half menehune, a Hawaiian fae with magic that reminds me of steampunkesque engineering. The fate of both worlds, fae and human, rests on the transfer of power between the sidhe and unseelie (only one of many critical balancing transfers) as the book draws on more than just names from the mythologies. The story also reveals the weight of promises and debts for the fae while hinting at the vast differences between the various types in everything from skills to eating habits.

There are many aspects I enjoyed from the occasional moments of philosophy to the creative solutions to traditional fantasy challenges. Several drawn out battles full of enthusiasm and chaos offer fast-paced action sequences. The backstory is so rich it sometimes felt I had jumped into the middle instead of book one. Then there’s how some traits in the fae mirrored ones from our world, like the brownies who want to work in the background and struggle under the weight of being noticed.

Speaking of creativity, I loved how it was valued by the teens and parents/teachers alike, as well as how it tied into magic. One caution, though. To let Megan reengage with the fantastic, she stops taking the latest pills added to her regime and later ends up in the fae lands with no medication. She is largely more functional on that side of the portal, a common motif but a little sad considering the strength of her portrayal in the beginning. They keep Megan’s mother in the dark about all of this until I still don’t know if she was aware of just who or what Megan’s father was.

The writing style is a bit rough in places, but not enough to hinder my read, and the book ends on a solid note. The end is seeded, so I suspected something coming, but still didn’t anticipate the details. I can’t say more to avoid spoilers, but I really appreciated the layers revealed in the events after the climax.

There’s so much more I marked as worthy of including in the review, but it can’t all fit without making this too chaotic to follow. Bottom line, I enjoyed this tween novel. It is written in a similar style to Tamora Pierce’s Alanna books, and for a similar age group or reading inclination. This would work well in the hopepunk category because it lacks the despair and gruesome nature of much of the young adult novels targeting older teens. The main characters are sixteen but read younger because of their sense of wonder and willingness to believe.
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Annie Nomous
3.0 out of 5 stars Great Y/A urban fantasy
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2016
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This is really a five star read for most, just not for me. I want to make that clear starting off. There is nothing wrong with this novel. It is a fantastically written and well set story following an adolescent girl with adhd. Where it was slow for me (the fixation on her adhd problems and small habits) it won't be an issue for others. This is coming from someone who has severe ADHD. There are so many little variations in how it affects people and manifests but to see it be fixated on in this story, this way, wasn't fun. It made the story in places drag for me. Move past that to when things get underway with a brilliant paranormal chase scene.

The mythology in here is well thought out and adapted. It's fun, well written, and definitely for a certain audience (young adult) which I am not part of. So while it's not the greatest for me, it's a great read over all and might just be perfect for you. But you won't know until you try. So try it!
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Nikki D
3.0 out of 5 stars This book was super weird.
Reviewed in Australia on September 29, 2018
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This book was super weird. I struggled to suspend my disbelief and didn't connect to the story.
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Daryl J Ball
4.0 out of 5 stars It serves as a great introduction to the world they are setting up with ...
Reviewed in Canada on March 20, 2016
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At first, I was intrigued and reading along to see how the book progressed. It was by no means the normal type of fantasy book I tend to read but had enough of my interest that I wanted to see it through. I am grateful that I did as by approximately halfway through I was no longer reading a book but instead felt as though I was reconnecting with an old friend. It serves as a great introduction to the world they are setting up with this series and provides a solid story of discovering who you are when you are able to let your creativity flow.
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DC
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice little book with a good story to it.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2015
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This is a book about a girl who enters the land of the fey in order to rescue her father, the underlie king.

The book is well written but the style takes a forgetting used to. As a 30 year old I couldn't quite decide the age of the ideal audience as the story was aimed at the younger reader but the humour would only be understood by someone older.

I liked how the story was unique and something different. It wasn't a gripping book but instead I would describe it as a nice light read.
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