Faerie Tale: A Novel

The story itself was pretty good. I like the idea of transplanting the fae and woodland creatures to America and incorporating Celtic legends via the the diaspora of Europe. Feist seems to fancy himself in the vein of John Fowles, who he even name checks at one point, but he comes up short.

There's a good, maybe great, book in here somewhere, but an editor would need to carve out 100+ pages of it first. The whole Gabbie/Jack romance was superfluous. In fact, Gabbie, the hot rich single daughter from the first marriage could be completely removed. She seems to exist only for one scene of SA, then she fades into the background. I get that it was written in the 1980s, but that's my country of origin. It would have been nonsense even back then.