The Fairies of Sadieville, Alex Bledsoe
The Fairies of Sadieville, Alex Bledsoe
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The Fairies of Sadieville
A Novel of the Tufa

Author: Alex Bledsoe

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2018

Synopsis

Charming and lyrical, The Fairies of Sadieville concludes Alex Bledsoe’s widely-praised contemporary fantasy series about the fairy descendants of Appalachia.“This is real.” Three small words on a film canister found by graduate students Justin and Veronica, who discover a long-lost silent movie from more than a century ago. The startlingly realistic footage shows a young girl transforming into a winged being. Looking for proof behind this claim, they travel to the rural foothills of Tennessee to find Sadieville, where it had been filmed.Soon, their journey takes them to Needsville, whose residents are hesitant about their investigation, but Justin and Veronica are helped by Tucker Carding, who seems to have his own ulterior motives. When the two students unearth a secret long hidden, everyone in the Tufa community must answer the most important question of their entire lives―what would they be willing to sacrifice in order to return to their fabled homeland of Tír na nÓg?

About Alex Bledsoe

Alex Bledsoe grew up in west Tennessee, an hour north of Graceland. He’s been a reporter, editor, photographer, and door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman. He has published more than fifty short stories on topics as diverse as big-game hunters, mermaids, modern witches, Victorian gentlemen, and country musicians. He has two sons and lives in Wisconsin.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on June 30, 2019

Note of warning THE FAIRIES OF SADIEVILLE is the very last novel in the Tufa series, so reading this book without having read the previous five novels will make it a bit hard to really understand since many events and people from the previous books will be addressed. You can read this book as a stan......more

Goodreads review by David on January 18, 2021

This is apparently the last book in the series. I have enjoyed the Tufa saga, a cheesy Appalachian soap opera of fractious hillbilly faeires in the modern world, but the worldbuilding fell apart a bit for me here. We have known since book one that the origins of the Tufa - a people supposedly here si......more

Goodreads review by Laura on September 07, 2020

Near perfect ending to one of my favorite series. The Tufa are an isolated people in rural Appalachia, descended from exiled fairies of Ireland. Music is a central aspect of their power and their traditions and beliefs are a part of their daily lives in contemporary times. Bledsoe brought the series......more

Goodreads review by Lynne on February 04, 2018

Entertaining novel that hooked me from the beginning. Even though this is the final book of the series I didn't have any problem following along but have decided to go back and read the others. Thank you NetGalley & Alex Bledsoe for the ARC!......more

Goodreads review by Suz on April 18, 2018

4.5+ stars What a wonderful story. Or, as a friend has said, a story within a story within a story. I always get to the end of these Tufa books and look back thinking "well, that was essentially just a slice of life story" but Bledsoe has a way of turning the ordinary and expected into surprisingly e......more

Quotes

“Bledsoe infuses his setting with a rich sense of location, atmosphere, and history, underscored by folk music…[The] series continues to enthrall with complex and nuanced stories.” Publishers Weekly

“Captures the allure and the sometimes sinister beauty of the Appalachian backwoods.” Library Journal (starred review), praise for the series

“Beautifully written, surprisingly moving, and unexpected in the best of ways.” Seanan McGuire, author of the October Daye series, praise for the series

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