*grin* That must be it. It's still four more than I have.
Thank you! I just might take you up on that. And let me know if you're ever in New York. The accommadations are a bit primitive, but my air mattress is your air mattress. :)
It's called Quick Bright Things, and it's about the bit in Yeats' Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland where he describes the leanan sidhe. If you say yes, you must be her slave. If you say no, she must be yours. Since I'm into BDSM and fantasy, the slave part caught my eye, but what really intrigued me was the part where there's no "go away and leave me alone" option. No matter what you say, once the question's been asked your life's forever changed. So the novel is the story of the boy who said no and then found he had an unexpected fairy on his hands.
The guy's an Irish-American kid, just out of college and living in Dublin on one of those short term summer - 1 year plans. Supposedly he's there to find his roots, but really it's a socially acceptable way to duck out of family and dating and people wanting him to know what he wants to do with his life. Which I mostly did because I didn't think I could pull off an authentic Irish POV character (fairies don't count, they're supposed to be strange) but also because then we have the fun of him running away home and getting yanked back by the bond, because the fairy can't leave.
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Date: 2004-06-18 12:02 am (UTC)Thank you! I just might take you up on that. And let me know if you're ever in New York. The accommadations are a bit primitive, but my air mattress is your air mattress. :)
It's called Quick Bright Things, and it's about the bit in Yeats' Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland where he describes the leanan sidhe. If you say yes, you must be her slave. If you say no, she must be yours. Since I'm into BDSM and fantasy, the slave part caught my eye, but what really intrigued me was the part where there's no "go away and leave me alone" option. No matter what you say, once the question's been asked your life's forever changed. So the novel is the story of the boy who said no and then found he had an unexpected fairy on his hands.
The guy's an Irish-American kid, just out of college and living in Dublin on one of those short term summer - 1 year plans. Supposedly he's there to find his roots, but really it's a socially acceptable way to duck out of family and dating and people wanting him to know what he wants to do with his life. Which I mostly did because I didn't think I could pull off an authentic Irish POV character (fairies don't count, they're supposed to be strange) but also because then we have the fun of him running away home and getting yanked back by the bond, because the fairy can't leave.