title: Faerie Tale
author: Raymond Feist
description: Feist, author of the popular Magician fantasy trilogy, turns to the horror genre in this slick, only partially successful novel of a very modern family newly settled into a house on the edge of an enchanted woods. Each member of the familyretired actress Gloria Hastings, her novelist and screenwriter husband Phil, his teenage daughter by a previous marriage, their twin eight-year-old boys, and a dog and a catis touched in some way by "the Bad Thing," as the boys call it, which turns out to be a forest spirit out of ancient folklore. Feist builds atmosphere with intimations of the supernatural that soon escalate into outright violence. It is the boys who most clearly perceive the Bad Thing, and who eventually confront and defeat it. While the plot has some intriguing features, the book is afflicted by a superficiality of characterization and a flat, uninteresting style. 150,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPBC selections. <br />Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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   _ **( Modern Tale of Faerie - 2 )**_ ****
  
  **Holly Black**
  
   _When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's
  trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new
  identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's
  labyrinthine subway system._
  
   _But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive
  Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a
  shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe
  Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And
  then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake
  of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to
  have goat hooves instead of feet._
  
   _When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden
  lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds
  herself bound into service b