The Hum and the Shiver

from revslick

move over Charles de Lint because Alex Bledsoe is definitely a new urban fantasy writer deserving of attention. The Hum and the Shiver is pure Appalachian Fantasy - modern, subtle and enticing. He puts a new twist on an old myth of the folk faerie without being wildly extreme. It is one thing to ...

from KarenIrelandPhillips

A charming, dark contemporary fantasy, with a wounded Iraq veteran at the center. Bronwyn, or, as she had been known in the small community of Needsville, Tennessee, the Bronwynator, survived a horrific attack that killed her comrades, and captivity that she avoids thinking about. Her return to N...

from JessLibrarian

In Cloud County songs can heal... and kill... In Bledsoe's latest fantasy Private Bronwyn Hyatt returns to the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee and the close-knit enigmatic community of the Tufa she ran from two years before. Still recovering from injuries, she must immediately take up her song and ...

from Beamis12

In this created world of the Tuftas, Bledsoe has given us an outstanding story and wonderful characters. Mixing magic with a war hero, superstitions with instruments and songs , haints and omens, a family must come together with their history and their place in the world and finding a way to be t...

from bookczuk

Suppose there was a group of people, deep in the heart of Appalachia, who arrived before the first Europeans -- who had music buried deep into their cultural soul, resounding in all that they do. Whose origins were lost in history, but glimpses could be caught in the very songs that weave through...