Wood Sprites Elfhome Book 4 eBook Wen Spencer
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Even though they attend a school of gifted students in New York City, child geniuses Louise Mayer and her twin sister Jillian have always felt alone in the world, isolated by their brilliance. Shortly before their ninth birthday, they make an amazing discovery. They’re not alone.
Their real mother was astronaut Esme Shenske and their father was the famous inventor, Leonardo Dufae. They have an older sister, Alexander, living on the planet of Elfhome, and four siblings still in cryogenic storage at the fertility center. There’s only one problem the frozen embryos are scheduled to be destroyed within six months. The race is on to save their baby brother and sisters.
As a war breaks out on Elfhome and riots start in New York City, the twins use science and magic to plow over everything standing in their way. But when they come face to face with an ancient evil force, they’re soon in over their heads in danger.
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John W. Campbell Award Winner Wen Spencer resides in paradise in Hilo, Hawaii with two volcanoes overlooking her home. Spencer says that she often wakes up and exclaims "Oh my god, I live on an island in the middle of the Pacific!" According to Spencer, she lives with "my Dali Llama-like husband, my autistic teenage son, and two cats (one of which is recovering from mental illness). All of which makes for very odd home life at times." Spencer's love of Japanese anime and manga flavors her writing. Her novel Tinker won the 2003 Sapphire Award for Best Science Fiction Romance and was a finalist for the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Fantasy Novel. Her Wolf Who Rules was a Top Pick by Romantic Times and given their top rating of four and a half stars. Other Baen books include space opera thriller Endless Blue and Elfhome, third entry in the Tinker series.
About Wen Spencer's Elfhome series
“Spencer's intertwining of current Earth technology and otherworldly elven magic is quite ingenious.” –Booklist
About Wen Spencer
“Wit and intelligence inform this off-beat, tongue-in-cheek fantasy. . . . Furious action . . . good characterization, playful eroticism and well-developed folklore. . . . lift this well above the fantasy average. . . . Buffy fans should find a lot to like in the book's resourceful heroine.”—Publishers Weekly on series debut Tinker
About Wen Spencer's Eight Million Gods
“Eight Million Gods is a wonderfully weird romp through Japanese mythology, culture shock, fan culture and the ability to write your own happy ending. It is diverting and entertaining fantasy." —Galveston County Daily News
The Elfhome Series
Tinker
Wolf Who Rules
Elfhome
Wood Sprites
Wood Sprites Elfhome Book 4 eBook Wen Spencer
How much do I love this book?I'd give it 10 stars if I could.
Just an amazing, awesome, wonderful ride. Wen Spencer expands the world of Tinker with a fascinating and moving story. It is rare that Fantasy makes me cry, but this book did multiple times. Awesome plot that opens fast and just keeps rolling along. The character development is incredible. There are no throw-away people in this book. Even the minor characters have real depth. When Louise tosses the tissue to Elle at her birthday party so she won't cry we have a true depth of feeling for a little girl who is a very minor character. Louise and Jillian have such massive depth to them. They feel so real in their emotions, and in their difficulty handling what life is throwing at them. Jillian's brokenness in the later third of the book is painful to watch but adds so much to the narrative.
Do I have any complaints? The ending felt rushed. Louise is shot in the tunnel and we skip ahead to safe, meeting Grace, Grace carrying the other kids and drop the curtain. I would have liked a lot more detail through that section.
This was a stay up until finished book. There was no way I was putting it down until I was done, and once I'm done with this review I'm going to do a complete series read-through. However, this is not the book read to enter the Tinker series. You really, really, really need to have read the rest of the series before taking on Wood Sprites.
Gosh, only 12 months until Harbinger.
Would I read it again? Oh yeah! 100% absolutely! I'm going to do a read through of the entire series again now!
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Wood Sprites Elfhome Book 4 eBook Wen Spencer Reviews
Wen Spencer's Wood Sprites is the fourth book in the Tinker series, but the action actually starts before the story that takes place in Tinker. So although this book ties in at points to the story in the earlier novels, it actually stands alone as the story of Tinker's much younger biological sisters, Louise and Jillian, nine-year-old twins with genius level IQs. The twins discover that their unborn siblings are about to be disposed of by the fertility clinic where the embryos have been in storage, and they decide they need to rescue them. And that choice leads to a whole bunch of further adventures, putting them in danger and eventually causing them to flee to Tinker and Elfhome.
I think my 10-year-old self would have given this book way more than 5 stars. A talking baby dragon? Hoverbike-riding toy mice? Super-smart part-elf wonder kids that run rings around their loving parents? Awesome! And really, other than a few mild swear words and maybe a few incidents that might trouble very sensitive kids, there's no reason a kid couldn't read this book.
As an adult, I struggled with the novel. About halfway through, I found myself a bit bored. There was just a little too much focus on life in the fifth grade for me, as the girls struggle to make friends and put together their class production of Peter Pan. Luckily, the play's performance marks a turning point in the story, with the action moving away from the twins' school as they fall into the hands of the bad guys. At that point, the pace of the story ramped up, and I enjoyed the last part of the novel much more than the first.
One other thing that bothered me a little about the story (and, really, has started to be an issue with Tinker herself in the other books) is that I felt like Jillian and Louise are just a bit too wonderful. Would even super genius nine-year-olds be able to pull off some of the shenanigans in this book? Doubtful. I know this is fantasy, and I'm willing to try to hand wave all of that away, but Wen Spencer needs to beware making things too easy for her characters. If they are too wonderful, too perfect, and their ability to triumph is never really in doubt, the story loses its impact.
I still enjoyed this book, but not as much as the others in the series. And I'm really hoping that the next one focuses on Tinker and less on Jillian and Louise.
An ARC of this book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This fourth book in the Elfhome/Tinker series actually starts before the first book, Tinker, and runs through till the end of Elfhome. However, it is set on Earth instead of Elfhome and involves new characters, twin nine-year-old geniuses, Louise and Jillian Mayer. After a backyard misadventure involving an explosion and blood, the girls discover that their much-loved parents are not their biological parents, despite the gross hospital video. Their secret research reveals some dark and exciting mysteries and lead to both joy and tragedy for them. They discover a famous big sister living on Elfhome as well as unborn (frozen) siblings in an Earth lab. When they learn their siblings are under threat, their mission is clear. Protecting their family, both old and new, proves more complicated with each new discovery of hidden enemies and age-old plots, but these are not your average little girls. They are Dufae!
I really love this series and this book and cannot recommend them enough. Despite taking place during the same time of the first three Elfhome books, the new characters and locations provide a different viewpoint and understanding of events. There were issues with time synching events between the stories, so many headaches that Ms. Spencer has sworn off doing it again (unless ... ), but it remains a small problem. Read it!
The next planned book of the series is an anthology of stories involving secondary characters and plotlines, such as "Pittsburgh Backyard and Garden" and "Peace Offering", with the intent of advancing the separate timelines to the same point, the end of the book Elfhome (see previous comment about headaches). The book after that (Harbinger) will continue the mainline events on Elfhome, with Tinker, Oilcan, Windwolf, and their friends (Jane, Nigel, Olivia, tengu) and enemies (Kajo, Soulless One, oni) in Pittsburgh.
How much do I love this book?
I'd give it 10 stars if I could.
Just an amazing, awesome, wonderful ride. Wen Spencer expands the world of Tinker with a fascinating and moving story. It is rare that Fantasy makes me cry, but this book did multiple times. Awesome plot that opens fast and just keeps rolling along. The character development is incredible. There are no throw-away people in this book. Even the minor characters have real depth. When Louise tosses the tissue to Elle at her birthday party so she won't cry we have a true depth of feeling for a little girl who is a very minor character. Louise and Jillian have such massive depth to them. They feel so real in their emotions, and in their difficulty handling what life is throwing at them. Jillian's brokenness in the later third of the book is painful to watch but adds so much to the narrative.
Do I have any complaints? The ending felt rushed. Louise is shot in the tunnel and we skip ahead to safe, meeting Grace, Grace carrying the other kids and drop the curtain. I would have liked a lot more detail through that section.
This was a stay up until finished book. There was no way I was putting it down until I was done, and once I'm done with this review I'm going to do a complete series read-through. However, this is not the book read to enter the Tinker series. You really, really, really need to have read the rest of the series before taking on Wood Sprites.
Gosh, only 12 months until Harbinger.
Would I read it again? Oh yeah! 100% absolutely! I'm going to do a read through of the entire series again now!
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