Faerie Wars Series

[lango]

Faerie Wars
The Purple Emperor
Ruler of the Realm
Faerie Lord

Ok, Im not sure if this book is very famous, but on the cover, I saw Eoin Colfer saying the writer, Herbie Brennan, was the best fantasy writer of all times, so I got curious.
Well, his writing style for me personally is simply fantastic. If lacking some sort of realism, the storyline never fails to amuse you.
If you like cliff-hangers, youll definitely like this book. Almost every single chapter ends in a cliff-hanger. Be it a true cliff-hanger of a comedy-related one.
The book is about a young boy, Henry, who has troubles in the real world (I wont give a spoiler on the sort of trouble), works for an old man by the name of Mr. Fogarty who believes in all sorts of nonsense such as UFO's, Alien invasions, CIA persecutions and fairies.
Henry believes the old man is a lunatic, untill he realises Mr. Fogarty's cat caught something in his mouth that was definitely not a butterfly.

To be fair, Faerie Wars read much like Artemis Fowl, in the sense that later in the series, after everything gets old, I get bored of the story, but the cliff-hangers kept me going.

Not exactly the best masterpiece ever written, but Herbie Brennan has my second favorite writting style
(first being Bartimaeus Trilogy, by Jonathan Stroud)

[Starry]

I didn't really like the series, personally. It's kind of jarring--one minute, you're dealing with some fairly intense mature topics in Henry's life, and the next you're flitting around a magicky world more suitable for an elementary school audience. I think the Amazon description says like 5th-7th grade, but I would not give this book to a kid that young.

Oh, and the other thing that bothers me--IT'S NOT FANTASY! Despite the name Faerie Wars, it's straight sci-fi. Parallel dimesions, UFOs and alien abductions, engineered portals...it's just weird.

I don't know, I guess it's an ok book, well written and a good plot and all that, but just not my style (I've read and own the first three books).

[Majyk]

I read the first one (or was it two?) when I was younger, so I don't remember it too well. I didn't like it too much then, although I keep seeing them in the library and thinking I should try again.

It seemed like a cool plot and stuff, but when I read it, it was really more sci fi than fantasy--and I was younger, so sci fi didn't really appeal to me much.

[lango]

I didn't really like the series, personally. It's kind of jarring--one minute, you're dealing with some fairly intense mature topics in Henry's life, and the next you're flitting around a magicky world more suitable for an elementary school audience. I think the Amazon description says like 5th-7th grade, but I would not give this book to a kid that young.


Ill agree with you partially there
Indeed Henry's life for one is way too mature for a children's book, and many sexual references are a bit mature too
Not to mention the writer's language can be very harsh in the middle of the story

and yet the plot itself, although fun, is very very simple, so the main plot reads like a children's book, sometimes too childish for me, and he randomly mixes it up with mature scenarios

Im not sure what his main audience is, but I'd say boys will like that book more than girls, random violent details arent very feminine.

I got very bored of it on the last book (it was too random for me), only read it because I always finish series, but what I like a lot about the book isnt the plot, but the writing style in the Cliff-hanger department

The cliffhanger when Henry's dad replies to henry's question about the possible affair in the first book was amazing

[Starry]

Ill agree with you partially there
Indeed Henry's life for one is way too mature for a children's book, and many sexual references are a bit mature too
Not to mention the writer's language can be very harsh in the middle of the story

and yet the plot itself, although fun, is very very simple, so the main plot reads like a children's book, sometimes too childish for me, and he randomly mixes it up with mature scenarios

Im not sure what his main audience is, but I'd say boys will like that book more than girls, random violent details arent very feminine.

I got very bored of it on the last book (it was too random for me), only read it because I always finish series, but what I like a lot about the book isnt the plot, but the writing style in the Cliff-hanger department

The cliffhanger when Henry's dad replies to henry's question about the possible affair in the first book was amazing

I only read the third book because I always finish series, and then I found out there was another one. That's it, I'm sick of them. What else can happen at this point?

Yeah, the affair part is pretty good--if the rest of the book continued like that with the more mature part I'm sure it could be a really good adult book. As it is *shrug* it's not children's literature, it's not adult, and it only sort of fits into "young adult."