Books Featuring Faeries/ Top 5 Wednesday

🎃 Books Featuring (Faeries/ Fae)/ Top 5 Wednesday 🍁

This week we were meant to pick one type of paranormal creature to talk about. For this week, I picked fae because I knew that I would have more books to talk about then the other creatures. One thing I have always liked about faeries/fairies/ fae, is the fact that they can be depicted in so many different ways. There is not one set in stone depiction of them.

Top 5 Wednesday is a group created by Lainey of Ginger Reads Lainey on Booktube. It is now hosted by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes on Booktube. Here is a link to the group on Goodreads if you are interested in joining.

5. Stardust by Neil Gaiman: One of the lands in Stardust is actually called Faerie and the citizens that reside there are Faeries. I will say that both the book and movie are amazing but are different from each other in tone (the movie is my favorite movie of all time). This is one example of the term "Faerie" meaning many sorts of people and not just one set type of creature. It is an adult faerie tale that is filled to the brim with magic.

4. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine: There are multiple fairies in this book. Lucinda is the fairy that actually puts the curse on Ella to make her obedient at birth. She's dim-witted and believes that this would be a blessing and everyone else knows that this is not true. Her character is an important character that helps add great aspects to this book. Mandy, their cook is also a fairy but is not very good at casting spells. It's interesting to see the different types of fairies and just learn more about the world of Kyyria.

I'll have to read this again soon, it's been a long time since I picked it up.

3. Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare: There are many fairies in this book, but I'll focus on my favorite, Puck. Puck is an example of a very mischievous fairy who is always pulling pranks on others around him. He is the closest that the play will come to a protagonist and is the reason why many of the actions take place. His character is one of my favorites from any of Shakespeare's plays.

2. The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi: In this series, the Fey are magical beings that live in the Invisible World. Faerie is also the name of that world. They use magic to hide themselves from humans and the humans that have the Sight can see through this magic. The intricate world that the authors created is one of my favorites.

Here are some of the types of Faerie mention in the book.
Banshees, Brownies, Dwarves, Elves, Gargoyles, Dragons, Hobgoblins, Sprites, Griffins, etc.

1. Wings series by Aprilynne Pike: This is one of my favorite series from high school. The faeries that exist in this world are very intriguing and different than I have seen in other books. Laurel, the main character in the novels has spent most of her life at home being home-schooled but during her tenth grade year she starts at high school. Sometime in the early fall, she starts to grow what look like flower petals out of her back and is worried about what this could be. These petals almost look like wings. The world of the faeries in this book is different than any other that I have seen. One aspect I really enjoy are the different types of faeries (spring, summer, fall, and winter) and learning about their cultures throughout the books.
This series may not be for everybody and I know that it can be strange at times. I really have always loved how different and strange it was. (I have yet to read the new fifth book in the series. I loved the fourth book and thought it was a good ending to the series. I'm not sure of what I'll think about the new book.)