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A review by keej2525
Finding Faeries: Discovering Sprites, Pixies, Redcaps, and Other Fantastical Creatures in an Urban Environment by Alexandra Rowland
1.0
The pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and unsubstantiated claims in this book make it quite an incoherent read. Spirituality is one thing, but the author attempts to make an argument for the physical and imminent reality of faeries, only to provide lackluster “evidence” (and sometimes no evidence at all) for their claims.
They cite ley lines as evidence in many places, with no regard for its status as a known pseudoscience. They also reference multiple names of researchers in the book, who I can’t seem to find any real record of. A lot of the “information” seems like it was ripped directly from tumblr (I believe they even reference a tumblr blog at some point). At one point they even claim that “scholars” have “documented” faeries in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and even Chernobyl being mutated. What scholars? What documentation? The attempts to substantiate claims in this books are so surface-level that it ultimately just looks dishonest. There are dozens of areas where they completely gloss over pretty wild claims as if the claims were just known fact.
Overall, this book can be summed up as: “Big, if true.”
They cite ley lines as evidence in many places, with no regard for its status as a known pseudoscience. They also reference multiple names of researchers in the book, who I can’t seem to find any real record of. A lot of the “information” seems like it was ripped directly from tumblr (I believe they even reference a tumblr blog at some point). At one point they even claim that “scholars” have “documented” faeries in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and even Chernobyl being mutated. What scholars? What documentation? The attempts to substantiate claims in this books are so surface-level that it ultimately just looks dishonest. There are dozens of areas where they completely gloss over pretty wild claims as if the claims were just known fact.
Overall, this book can be summed up as: “Big, if true.”