Fairytale

by Maggie Shayne

Book Overview

Years after he has a wondrous childhood experience in an enchanted forest, the grown and somber Adam Reid encounters the half-fairy Brigit but refuses to believe his experience and Brigit's claims are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380783002
• ISBN13: 9780380783007
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful - Must read

I read this months ago but am still thinking of how wonderful the book really was. If you enjoy magic and love, this is the book to read! Maggie Shayne is a great author and I have enjoyed her magical tales.

Fantasy Romance

Brigit was left on the steps of the orphanage as a baby with a handmade book called "Fairytale" and a pendant. The nuns told her she was a twin but she could never find proof of a sister. At age nine she ends up living in the streets and eventually earns desparately needed cash but using her amazing ability (magical?) to forge great works of art. She escapes to the straight life when a visitor from the past threatens her into forging a painting owned by Adam. Turns out the painting was painted by the twin and is of a glen in the fairytale world. Adam had stubbled "across" as a child and knows the meaning of the picture. It was in the book and so Brigit knows what it means. The book revolves around the growing romanced between the two as they struggle with both evil humans and their own confusion about the meaning of the painting.It's all pretty farfetched but the book is certainly a pleasant enough read. Not a keeper for me though - no tears or belly laughs.

It's hard to put down this magical love story

This is one of those books that you hate to see end. It kept me in suspense right up to the last pages. Makes me want to sit down and write!

This book is definitely a keeper!

Once again Maggie Shayne has written a book I'll read again and again. She's one of the few authors whose books I don't trade or loan out. I just wish she could write them as fast as I like to read them.