Stephen Hayes reviewed Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist
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4 stars
Re-reading after 20 years, I decided to up it from 3 stars to 4.
It's a story abut a family that moves from California to New York to live in an old farm house outside a small town, and they discover that the surrounding woodlands are haunted, mainly by creatures from Irish folklore, but which a group of German immigrants seemed to have been excessively interested in.
On this, my third reading, I was really looking for just one thing from the story, so I skipped a lot of pages in the beginning while I was looking for it, and eventually started reading the whole thing from about page 100. I'd forgotten a lot of the story, but it also found it more interesting than on previous readings, mainly because I'd read [b:The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People|100505|The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and …
Re-reading after 20 years, I decided to up it from 3 stars to 4.
It's a story abut a family that moves from California to New York to live in an old farm house outside a small town, and they discover that the surrounding woodlands are haunted, mainly by creatures from Irish folklore, but which a group of German immigrants seemed to have been excessively interested in.
On this, my third reading, I was really looking for just one thing from the story, so I skipped a lot of pages in the beginning while I was looking for it, and eventually started reading the whole thing from about page 100. I'd forgotten a lot of the story, but it also found it more interesting than on previous readings, mainly because I'd read [b:The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People|100505|The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People|Thomas Keightley|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1434347469l/100505.SX50.jpg|96904], which is mentioned in this one too, and so I had a better understanding of what was going on.
And having reached the end, I went back to read the first 100 pages, and that proved quite illuminating too, because one could see how later events were foreshadowed, and knowing how they would develop, and what the consequences would be, made it easier to understand. I wouldn't say that that is how one should read all books, but on a second or third reading it can be useful for some books.
