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Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston

Wondrous Strange Summary

For seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are just something from childhood stories.

Then she meets Sonny Flannery, whose steel-gray eyes mask an equally steely determination to protect her.

Sonny guards the Samhain Gate, which connects the mortal realm with the Faerie's enchanted, dangerous Otherworld.

Usually kept shut by order of icy King Auberon, the gate stands open but once a year.

This year, as the time approaches when the Samhain Gate will swing wide and nightmarish Fae will fight their way into an unsuspecting human world, something different is happening... something wondrous and strange.

And Kelley's eyes are opening not just to the Faeries that surround her but to the heritage that awaits her.

Now Kelley must navigate deadly Faerie treachery-and her growing feelings for Sonny-in this dazzling page-turner filled with luminous romance.

This is a richly layered tale of love between faerie and mortal, betrayal between kings and queens, and magic... between author and reader.

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School Library Journal

Gr 7-10 - When Kelley moves to New York to pursue her dreams of theatrical success, she expects that her only encounters with mythical beings will be confined to the stage, in the Avalon Grande Theatre's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream .

All of that changes when she meets Sonny Flannery, who introduces Kelley to a world she never knew existed.

A member of Auberon's Janus Guard, he patrols the portal (in Central Park) between the human and faerie worlds on the few dangerous nights when it opens and members of the Unseelie Court can pass into the mortal realm.

He is strangely drawn to Kelley, and as he gets to know her, he begins to suspect that there is more to her history than either of them know.

Through encounters with sirens, hellhounds, and kelpies, Kelley and Sonny are drawn irrevocably into a battle among the Fey.

Despite the budding attraction between them, forces they can hardly understand seek to keep them apart.

Set against the backdrop of present-day New York City, this enchanting first novel weaves together the worlds of theater and magic in a way that is sure to please fans of both.

Readers will revel in the hints of Shakespeare within the text as they are introduced to faerie creatures both familiar and "wondrous strange." - Misti Tidman, Boyd County Public Library, Ashland, KY