Wondrous Strange

By Lesley Livingston

For seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, life isn't going too badly. Sure, the director for the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that she is in is, umm, demanding, but she's landed a good role. She's playing Titania, the fairy queen. Then, suddenly, her life is starting to fray at the edges. There's a horse on her bathtub, a wierdo is apparently stalking her, and she may be the long-lost daughter of the faerie king, Auberon. Oh, and the gates to Faerie are about to open, which is BAD. I've given the lecture on faeries elswhere, and I'm not giving it again. For Sonny Flannery, the afformentioned wierdo, life is emphatically not going that well. He is one of the guards for the gates of Faerie, and with the gates about to open, his workload is going way up. Then there's the fact that he's found King Auberon's daughter, and he may be falling in love with her. Oh, and another faerie queen, Mahb, wants to awaken the Wild Hunt. Again, NOT GOOD. The Wild Hunt is a faerie war band. They are evil, ok? They love killing and destruction, and they really don't like people all that much. Therefore, their being awakened is BAD, got it?
I really liked this book. The plot is great, the writing is good, and the faeries are just the sort I like. Look for the description in the Glossary if you need more info. Puuurrrrr, good book. Fans of Lament and Impossible may like this one.

Small Gods

By Terry Pratchett

A novel of Discworld

What do you do when your incredibly bossy god tells you that it has been trapped in the shape of a tortoise and that you are the only person who can hear it? This is what happens to the novice Brutha. Om (the god), has becom trapped in tortoise shape because Brutha is the only one who actually believes in him anymore even though thousands of people worship him! When no one believes in a god they sort of fade away into the deserts and deep forests. Om may soon be joining those small gods if Brutha doesn't do something. Unfortunatly Brutha, despite an enormous memory, is kind of dumb. He can, however follow orders well and as nobody but him really believes in Om any more, Brutha is all the god has to work with. Terry Pratchett does not disappoint in this hilarious book. FUNNY, really, really, really FUNNY is a good description of this book. I loved Om and Brutha, and have always been pretty interested in the gods of Discworld.