Posts Tagged ‘fairy tales and folklore’

Power and Majesty is a strange novel. In many ways I haven’t seen anything like this in a while. While I’ve certainly seen many books which try to incorporate the whole Fey thing, with fairies and the like, these days they’re confined to the realms of urban fantasy. Such as 61 Nails, which I reviewed recently. You don’t often read traditional fantasy novels using fairies in this manner. It usually comes off a little too cheesy, as fairies are, well, not very scary and just too Tinkerbell to be effective as good guy heroes. Let’s face it, they’re sidekicks. And not good ones at that.

I have to say I wasn’t overly convinced by the beginning. I like a book to rush into the meat of itself, but our main character, Niall, is not only a little too accepting, he just doesn’t bother with denial and just leaps into everything with a good old English shrug. And perhaps a sausage for breakfast.

What? I’m not human? Jolly good. Soldier on.

And there’s where the magic lies. The Characters. The two Grossbarts are the most unique creations – part ogres, part serial killers. It was almost like seeing Jason and Michael from those epic horror movies team up and go on a bit of a roadtrip.