![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Carter’s mother intervened and kept them both, reasoning that any mother who would give away her baby was not a suitable mom. ![]() When the boys were infants, the faeries tried to substitute Jack for Carter. Jack looks almost like his twin Carter, because Jack was a changling. When Hazel is not thinking about the prince, she thinks about – or tries not to think about – her crush on Jack, Ben’s BFF. Hazel in particular is resolved to become a Knight, who slays monsters and saves princes. Hazel and Ben have always had a protective attitude toward the prince, and both dreamed of rescuing him one day. Many have tried to break the glass, but none have succeeded. And there are many tourists they come to see the elfin prince sleeping in a glass coffin in the forest. The Folk more or less leave the townspeople alone, only bothering tourists, who they consider fair game, because – after all, they act like tourists. Hazel and Ben live in the unusual town of Fairfold, a wooded place full of faeries (also known as The Folk). The main character is Hazel Evans, almost 16, who has a good relationship with her older brother Ben, even though they keep many secrets from one another. There are also some wonderful inversions of gender expectations, expectations of gender preference, and conflict driven not by the diversity of color (of which there is plenty in this book), but between Fae and non-Fae. There is a lot of cleverness and humor in this modern day fairy tale in which characters text on their phones for help fighting evil faeries. ![]()
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