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Bad Luck Girl (2014)

by Sarah Zettel(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0375869409 (ISBN13: 9780375869402)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Random House Books for Young Readers

series

The American Fairy

review 1: Book Three of the American Fairy series has Callie reunited with her parents and fleeing across country from a war she inadvertently started between the Seelie and Unseelie courts. Callie and her family get as far as Chicago before they have to stop. There, Callie learns that fairies aren't the only magical beings in the world. She meets the Halfers, magical creatures who started out as people, animals, plants, but were transformed by fairy magic. The Halfers have their own quarrels with the fairies, and Callie, as usual, gets caught in the middle. This is a satisfying wrap-up of the trilogy, full of original magic and wonderful period detail of jazz age Chicago. Best of all, even though it's book 3 of 3, it ends in a way that strongly suggests that Callie and Jack a... morend their magical friends will return in future installments. I hope they do.
review 2: A very satisfying ending to a very fine series. I really love it when writers manage to pull off setting some of the traditional fairy lore in historic America. This series begins in Dust Bowl Kansas, moves to Hollywood, and ends in Depression Chicago. Zettel does a fabulous job with setting, venacular, and more. She throws in real and almost-real characters and does some very interesting stuff with race and ethnicity. I especially liked the way she brought that together in this final volume. Our heroine Callie is mixed race --- her father is both fairy and black, her mother mundane and white. And so when Callie encounters the Halfers, others who are mixed as she is, she has great sympathy for them. Her father, of regal fairy stock, doesn't at first. Really like the development of this along with a lot more in this series. Makes me want to read more by this author. less

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