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A review by ielerol
Chapel of Ease by Alex Bledsoe
3.0
The Tufa novels generally manage to handle some of my least favorite contemporary fantasy tropes (European magical creatures in the Americas, rival fairy courts, magic kept strictly secret from the mundane world) in ways that I actually quite enjoy. But this one being the first told only from the point of view of a non-Tufa character, it leaned heavily on another of my least favorite tropes, in-the-dark main character takes way too long to realize the supernatural nature of things the reader has known since the beginning. And this time I found it just as boring as usual. I just don't ever care about the journey of being convinced that fairies are real.
Not that I didn't like Matt, but I'm just more interested in the Tufa community itself than in outside views of it.
I think my favorite part of this book is the suggestion that the Tufa might finally end up a little more known to the wider world. Maybe someday one of them can leave Needsville without being traumatized in a war or dying young.
Not that I didn't like Matt, but I'm just more interested in the Tufa community itself than in outside views of it.
I think my favorite part of this book is the suggestion that the Tufa might finally end up a little more known to the wider world. Maybe someday one of them can leave Needsville without being traumatized in a war or dying young.