Book review, with a musical bonus – Alex Bledsoe’s Tufa novels.

I love my tablet. So much so that when it started playing up, I bought another one pre-emptively. So now I have two tablets and they both get used!

But handy as they are, I don’t get an engrossed in a book in the same way as with an actual book. So recently I’ve started going to the library again. I read really fast, so I go through too many to buy them.

The other good thing about the library is just wandering around picking books up at random. You find things you’d probably never come across looking online.

That’s how I came across Alex Bledsoe.

What if, once upon a time, the head woodsman of the Queen of the fairies did something so unforgivable that she banished him?

What if she sent him and all his kin to the Appalachian mountains, long before any mortals were there?

What if they were still there in the 20th century, keeping to themselves, and nobody knew who they really were?

What if they were known as the Tufa, but their heritage was a mystery?

What if they still retained some of their abilities, including a somewhat fluid relationship with time, the ability to fly and immense musical talent?

Talent so huge that each and every one of them could have had massive careers in the outside world, but only at a price.

Are you intrigued yet?

If so, you have to read these novels:

• The Hum and The Shiver
• Wisp of a Thing
• Long Black Curl
• Chapel of Ease

I’m not going to give away any more; I’ve probably given away too much already. But after I read the first one, the next week I was back at the library looking for more. I’m on my way to the library to grab the last one today.

And then I’m keen to get onto his other series:

• Eddie Lacrosse
• Memphis Vampires
• Firefly Witch

Check out his website for more on the other books and to download the first chapter of “The Hum and The Shiver”

Musical Bonus

This is the band Tuatha Dea performing a number inspired by “The Hum and The Shiver”

Thanks for reading

Pic 1 from Pixabay, 2 from Alex Bledsoe’s website, video from Youtube.

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