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Title: Lily
Author: Michael Thomas Ford
Narrator: Pyper Down
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-16
Publisher: Lethe Press
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Lily is a girl who discovers she has the ability to see how others will die simply by touching them. Only she doesn't want this gift, and takes extreme measure to protect herself from it. When her mother - because every fairy tale has to have a wicked stepmother - sells Lily's services to an evangelical preacher and his wildly popular travelling tent revival, Lily is torn away from the idyllic place she's always known as home and thrust into a world of greed and manipulation that threatens to destroy her unless she can find a way back, if she survives the quest the old witch Baba Yaga has given her...or the attention of the tent revivalist who promises to save her soul.
Members Reviews:
In a garden of nightflowers, pick a lily
As always, Michael Thomas Ford delivers a deftly-penned and darkly-rich story. The intermixed illustrations bring a dark, archaic Rus feel (appropriately) to the story while Ford's signature wit and tone weave a story that is both timeless and wholly original. You most certainly don't want to miss this novel.
Five Stars
Awesome book. Well deserved accolades it has gotten.
A Marvelous Fairy Tale
Lily is a marvelous fairy tale by author Michael Thomas Ford. The elements of a fairy tale are all present - magic, a young adventurer, the rescue of a victim, an evil adversary, even a fairy godmother. But the characters that occupy these roles are unexpected and freshly viewed. Lily, a young girl who can see the death of others, is taken from her home to a traveling carnival. Her homeland of simple, straightforward magic, is disrupted in a world of subtle tricks and misdirection, led Brother Silas Everyman, a preacher with questionable goals.
As much as I always enjoy reading Ford, I was also quite taken with Staven Andersen's black and white illustrations. They felt both very medieval and contemporary-horror, with their exaggerated body shapes reflecting sins and graces in the tale. The combination provides a rich and frightening read.
Ford pulls the fairy tale trope apart like the cotton candy Lily eats - changelings and fortune tellers and Baba Yaga and even Old Scratch himself show up in the story, creating a new world that is as dark and gruesome as any Grimm Brothers' tale. And like a Grimm story, Ford's manages to take us from darkness to light through the simple magics of innocent love.
I recommend this book to readers of fairy tales, especially those who seek the terror and darkness in order to slay the monsters who lay in hiding there.
Carnival of Deception
âOn the morning of her thirteenth birthday, Lily kissed her father and knew he would be dead by nightfall.â
Thus begins the coming-of-age story of Lily, who has always lived happily in a seaside village with her mother and her fisherman father until his death changes her life. Like other central characters in fairy tales, she is given magical gifts (from her late father) and tested by an antagonist, the witch Baba Yaga from Russian folklore.
When Lily is unable to foresee the death of the witch, she asks: âAre you death or life?â
The witch simply loses her temper, and tells Lily she is ânot ready for Babaâs game.â However, Baba Yaga is intrigued by the âwild magicâ in Lily, and thinks: âSuch a girl could be very useful. Or dangerous. Possibly both.â The witch decides to follow Lily in her journey beyond the safety of childhood into the dangerous world.