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The Fairies of Sadieville by Alex Bledsoe, Tor Books, 2018, $29.99, hc
Six books into this absolutely enchanting series of stand-alone novels, with their connective threads of setting and a few core characters, and we come to an end. Some might be sad that this is the last of Alex Bledsoe's Tufa books,
but I'm not one of them. Stories, to be effective, have to come to a conclusion. And as I say to folks who complain that they want more of some favorite series, the older titles are always there to be rediscovered. For my part, I'm excited to see what Bledsoe does next.
The Tufa are a dusky-skinned race of black-haired and dark-eyed people who live in the Appalachian mountains. They've been confused with blacks and Native Americans but they're not part of either race. They're gifted musicians and keep to themselves in a part of the mountains called Cloud County. But sometimes they venture into the wider world, sometimes the wider world comes to them, and therein lie the stories that Bledsoe has been telling for six books and a handful of short stories.
I mentioned a "few core characters" above, and we certainly come to know some...