{"id":4622,"date":"2017-11-16T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T19:12:08","slug":"the-best-of-bad-ass-faeries-edited-by-danielle-ackley-mcphail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/fantasy\/anthology\/the-best-of-bad-ass-faeries-edited-by-danielle-ackley-mcphail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The-Best-of-Bad-Ass-Faeries-edited-by-Danielle-Ackley-McPhail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4623\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The-Best-of-Bad-Ass-Faeries-edited-by-Danielle-Ackley-McPhail-167x250.jpg\" alt=\"The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail book cover\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The-Best-of-Bad-Ass-Faeries-edited-by-Danielle-Ackley-McPhail-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The-Best-of-Bad-Ass-Faeries-edited-by-Danielle-Ackley-McPhail.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a>Genre: Fantasy Anthology<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Publisher:\u00a0\u00a0eSpec Books<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Published: 2017<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Reviewer Rating:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/fourhalfstars.gif\" alt=\"four and a half stars\" width=\"57\" height=\"13\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Reviewer: David L. Felts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you read this book?<br \/>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-4622\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"d647f4828b\"><img id=\"rating_4622_1\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4622, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4622_2\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4622, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4622_3\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4622, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4622_4\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4622, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4622_5\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4622, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(5, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/>  (<strong>1<\/strong> votes, average: <strong>5.00<\/strong> out of 5)<br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_4622_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-4622-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, brings us fun stories of your not-so-typical fairy-tale type. Here we&#8217;ve got bikers. mobsters, cowboys, assassins, criminals, and all manner of dark-side, noir characters, just about everything else you can think of that is bad-ass and from the world of the fae.<\/p>\n<p>The bad-ass faeries anthologies have been ongoing for almost ten years now. The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries is the sixth book in the series and a collection of favorite tales, as voted on by fans of the series.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read any of the others, so I don&#8217;t know if they are all reprints or a mixture of old and new. In looking at the copyrights, some are 2017, so I&#8217;m thinking there&#8217;s a new tale or two in here as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got some heft to it, with the table of contents listing 20 stories for your wrong-side-of-the-tracks fairy adventures enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ballad of the Seven Up Sprite, by Brian Koscienski &amp; Chris Pisano<\/li>\n<li>House Arrest,\u00a0by Keith R.A. DeCandido<\/li>\n<li>Futuristic Cybernetic Faerie Assassin Hasballah,\u00a0by Adam P. Knave<\/li>\n<li>Hidden in the Folds,\u00a0by Jesse Harris<\/li>\n<li>Way of the Bone,\u00a0by James Chambers<\/li>\n<li>Do You Believe,\u00a0by CJ Henderson<\/li>\n<li>Within the Guardian Bell,\u00a0by Danielle Ackley-McPhail<\/li>\n<li>Twilight Crossing,\u00a0by John Passarella<\/li>\n<li>Grim Necessity,\u00a0by Jeffrey Lyman<\/li>\n<li>Moonshine,\u00a0by Bernie Mojzes<\/li>\n<li>A Not So Silent Night,\u00a0by L. Jagi Lamplighter<\/li>\n<li>So Many Deaths,\u00a0by John L. French<\/li>\n<li>The Natural Born Spy,\u00a0by James Daniel Ross<\/li>\n<li>At The Grasshopper s Hill,\u00a0by Robert E. Waters<\/li>\n<li>Selkskin Deep,\u00a0by Kelly A. Harmon<\/li>\n<li>The Face of the Serpent,\u00a0by DL Thurston<\/li>\n<li>Looking a Gift Horse,\u00a0by Patrick Thomas<\/li>\n<li>Fifteen Percent,\u00a0by Jody Lynn Nye<\/li>\n<li>Bad Blood,\u00a0by Lee C. Hillman<\/li>\n<li>Melia&#8217;s Best Wave,\u00a0by NR Brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whew! That&#8217;s quite the list of reading enjoyment!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only recently, say in the last hundred years or so, that we&#8217;ve seen the ill-intentioned fairy world somewhat transformed into mischievous tricksters. Yet going back beyond that, we can see the the Fae held humanity in contempt, as playthings for their amusement, below consideration. Take their capriciousness into a modern and or urban setting and your got this anthology a la Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly enjoyed House Arrest,\u00a0Keith R.A. DeCandido, Futuristic Cybernetic Faerie Assassin Hasballah,\u00a0Adam P. Knave, Way of the Bone,\u00a0by James Chambers and Grim Necessity,\u00a0by Jeffrey Lyman.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a new(ish) twist on some ancient not-so-nice beings, this is a good choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher:\u00a0\u00a0eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating:\u00a0 Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, brings us fun stories of your not-so-typical fairy-tale type. Here we&#8217;ve got bikers. mobsters, cowboys, assassins, criminals, and all manner of dark-side, noir &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,145],"tags":[76,769,9,771,912],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}