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Wood Sprites (2014)

by Wen Spencer(Favorite Author)

4.33 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1476736715 (ISBN13: 9781476736716)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Baen

series

Elfhome

review 1: This is book #4, but the events start before book #1, and run along #2 and #3. They basically take place in two different worlds, so there's not a lot of overlap. You could read it before--or after the other three and it would still make sense.Nearly nine-year-old Louise Mayer and her twin sister Jillian are geniuses, which means they don't quite fit in. And then they discover they have an older sibling and four siblings still in cryogenic storage of the fertility center they came from. Their parents are astronaut Esme Shenske inventor, Leonardo Dufae, their sister Alexander Graham Bell. They're thrilled to learn this--and then horrified to discover that their four future siblings will be destroyed in six months.It's going to take a lot of work to rescue them, work made mo... morere difficult by war in Elfhome and riots in New York City. And some enemy of their sister wants the twins for their own reasons. It's going to get complicated.Though this book doesn't have any of the main characters from the other three books, the ones introduced have a lot in common with the characters I liked from the previous stories. The twins, in particular, share that bright, inventive, wicked mind that Tinker has, which makes them capable of driving the plot forward and earning a laugh or two along the way. A must read for fans of the series, and not a bad place to start for people interested in Urban Fantasy involving some scary elves, magic genetic engineering, portals to another world, geniuses, and a whole lot of trouble. And it seems like the characters from all four books might all end up together in the book #5.
review 2: Well worth the wait, this is a new entry into Spencers particular take on Elfhome, where Pittsburgh is occasionally swapped with a chunk of another world inhabited by an interesting variety of elves and monsters. Introducing a couple pint sized super genius twins, on a mission to save their unborn siblings, it was fun, it was funny, Wen Spencer never disappoints.This book takes place mostly on earth, only touching on characters and events elsewhere in the series, and stands very well on it's own as an entry point for new readers, Spencer deftly weaves magic and super science together for a world that's interesting and addicting. If only she wrote faster i'd have no complaints. Full disclosure, i was allowed to read the ARC in return for an honest review via netgalley. less

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