faerie
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The books follow Feyre Archeron in the faerie lands of Prythian and her love story with the High Lord of the Night Court, Rhysand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
The show took over St. Ann’s Warehouse, in Brooklyn, in a 24-hour-long “radical faerie realness ritual sacrifice” that amounted to a transcendent artistic and political gesture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
From the start, Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada appears to be a creature of faerie, or a mythic beast: a captivating beauty, just so long as you don’t look too closely at the wrong moment.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023
For instance, our faerie characters fly because they have wings.
From The Verge ● Sep. 10, 2019
I think of how I felt yesterday, and the echo of faerie fruit comes unbidden into my mouth.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Then the prince’s former spymaster approaches Mer with a plan to steal the prince’s treasure, with a team of rogues that includes a corgi that might be a spy for the faeries.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
In one ear they had the hope-peddlers and centrist pundits whispering, like faeries or gods in some pre-Raphaelite painting, that everything would be fine and they should just keep sleeping.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2022
It may seem like a revolutionary strategy to retreat to the gardens of the faeries, to unplug and go off the grid.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2019
The Fae folk — faeries, fauns, centaurs, trolls and such — are refugees from their war-torn homeland Tirnanoc, but they’ve found little welcome in the neo-Victorian steampunk city of The Burgue.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
She knew plenty about this forest, knew that the denizens of this place had once been faeries: gnomes, sprites, nymphs, goblins, more names than anyone could count or remember.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
