Fairy Tales: The Wood Wife (Paperback)

from thioviolight

The Wood Wife is an enchanting modern fantasy by Terri Windling, filled with wood spirits, wonderful imagery, surreal magic, art and poetry. Even though I consider myself a city girl at heart, I found the desert setting and wildlife compelling, almost as Black Maggie did. The story is peopled wit...

from Ammonite

I greatly enjoyed this on first reading, and have re-read it several times since. Windling gently interweaves the strands of the plot, describing a woman's escape from a subtly abusive 'ordinary' relationship into other, intriguing relationships with her art, the landscape of the southwest, a cul...

from jen.e.moore

Incredible. There needs to be a name for the genre that is this book and War for the Oaks, because I think they're pretty much the same thing. Humans And Faeries Together They Don't Understand Each Other Very Well But It's Still Pretty Awesome? Something like that.

from TadAD

I had remembered really enjoying this book from when I read it about 12 years ago. I had forgotten how much I liked it, enough that I'm nudging it into my Favorites list for this particular genre. Windling takes the same basic American folklore stock as Charles de Lint and others have used and, l...

from tloeffler

Maggie Black inherits a house in the outskirts of Tucson from Davis Cooper, a poet whom she has never met, but has corresponded with for years. Strange things start happening as she begins to sort through his belongings, the poems he wrote and the paintings his wife made before she died. Before l...