What the Faeries Left Behind

By Amber Michelle Cook

After coming home from a monotonous office job to the apartment where she lives alone, thirty-something Abigail Watson is having a tough day in a hard week in a rotten month, and don’t even get her started on the year. Until that night when something wonderfully impossible shows up at her door and rings the bell insistently.

You’re not supposed to answer the door late at night to strangers who come knocking unannounced, right?

Right. But Abigail does.

Because how can you be scared of someone with translucent wings like those of a dragonfly?

WHAT THE FAERIES LEFT BEHIND is an urban fairy tale ‘antidote’ to those times when the dullness and drudgery of grown-up life seems inescapable, and to the misconception that wonder and play are just for children.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amber Michelle Cook
• Release date: Jan 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301984602

Amber Michelle Cook

____________ _ _ _ _ Amber Michelle Cook writes stories of deep, meaningful fun. Partly raised in Germany, she went to an international school for high-school, majored in linguistics, loves literature and period pieces. She's also a photography/graphic arts artist of color and wonder living in the great Northwest. In addition to leading improv writing tables, she's one of the team behind National Novel Editing Month and Member Relations Chair of Communications/Marketing for the Northwest Independent Writers Association. Aside from words and stories, she adores dogs and is fascinated by any and everything aquatic. Especially cephalopods. ____________ _ _ _ _

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Reviews for What the Faeries Left Behind

[tinamariesays · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The meaning, message, or moral of this story was a good one - wonder and play are not just for children. My favorite scene in the story involved childhood fun with bubbles. It was descriptive and really hit home. The faeries coming in and switching babies - interesting. However, the rest of the story had me kind of confused at times. I didn't really get why they were switched, or why they had to switch back. I think Abigail was talking to herself and telling the story at the same time which added to my confusion. It was also much shorter than I thought it would be when I started reading it. It said it was only at around 60% when the story ended and the rest of the "book" contained author information and excerpts from other work. I was given a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review.

[maryann12_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Highly Recommended. This book is something out of the ordinary, and it is written in a humorous way that will appeal to a wide audience.Amber Michelle Cook has crafted a wonderful fairy tale for adults filled with a world inhabited by strange, erotic, magical and captivating creatures. Once I began this book I could not put it down. The story takes many turns and takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of suspense and excitement.A long needed fairy-tale for Grown-ups. I was not disappointed! Amber Michelle Cook has an easy to read, smart writing style and great sense of humor.