#Week4 The Faerie Court by @SkylarDorset

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THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS is the story of Selkie Stewart, who thinks she’s a totally normal teenager growing up in Boston. Sure, her father is in an insane asylum, her mother left her on his doorstep—literally—when she was a baby, and she’s being raised by two ancient aunts who spend their time hunting gnomes in their Beacon Hill townhouse. But other than that her life is totally normal! She’s got an adventurous best friend who’s always got her back and an unrequited crush on an older boy named Ben. Just like any other teenager, right?

When Selkie goes in search of the mother she’s never known, she gets more than she bargained for. It turns out that her mother is faerie royalty, which would make Selkie a faerie princess—except for the part where her father is an ogre, which makes her only half of anything. Even more confusing, there’s a prophecy that Selkie is going to destroy the tyrannical Seelie Court, which is why her mother actually wants to kill her. Selkie has been kept hidden all her life by her adoring aunts, with the help of a Salem wizard named Will. And Ben. Because the boy she thinks she’s in love with turns out to be a faerie whose enchantment has kept her alive, but also kept her in the dark about her own life.

Now, with enchantments dissolved and prophecies swinging into action, Selkie finds herself on a series of mad quests to save the people she’s always loved and a life she’s learning to love. But in a supernatural world of increasingly complex alliances and distressingly complicated deceptions, it’s so hard to know who to trust. Does her mother really wish to kill her? Would Will sacrifice her for the sake of the prophecy? And does Ben really love her or is it all an elaborate ruse? In order to survive, Selkie realizes that the key is learning—and accepting—who she really is.

About the Author

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Skylar’s first story was a tale of romantic intrigue involving two feuding factions of squirrels. Think “Romeo & Juliet” but with bushy tails and added espionage. She was seven.

Since that time, Skylar’s head has been filled with lots of characters and lots of drama. She is delighted to be able to share some of it with all of you now, because, honestly, it was getting pretty loud and crowded in there.

Skylar is a born-and-bred New Englander, which is why Boston was a natural setting for her debut novel, THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS. Skylar shares her home with a cardboard cutout of the Tenth Doctor, lots of Mardi Gras beads from the time she spent living in New Orleans, and a harp she’s supposed to be teaching herself to play. She’d like to get a dog.

Boston

Much of the Boston history and geography in the book is true:

Selkie lives on Beacon Street, which really is on the edge of Beacon Hill, right across from the Common and Park Street T station, where the Red Line and Green Line do intersect.

Beacon Hill was built defensively, to keep out riff-raff.

Beacon Hill is characterized by lavender windowpanes, just as Selkie explains in the book. Not many exist anymore, but you can still spot a few. The people who happen to live in places that still have them cherish them.

There is an “amusement park” named Salem Willows in Salem, and it does sit by the harbor.

The description of Salem at Halloween is, I think, fairly accurate, but, to my knowledge, there is no such place as the Salem Which Museum.

Boston really was founded by William Blaxton, who was later known as William Blackstone. He really did plant apple trees on Beacon Hill and then, upon seeing the shivering Puritan settlers across the river, invited them over, after which he left for the colony of Rhode Island. Blaxton is all but lost to history now. Not many Bostonians know his name, although there is a single plaque to him on Beacon Street, and his second chosen name, Blackstone, persists in the name of the valley where he settled in Rhode Island and an elementary school in Boston’s South End. Will is very happy to have been lost to history; it preserves for him his anonymity.

Will refers to the Witch and Ward Society, which was my supernaturalization of the very real Watch and Ward Society who censored the books published in Boston, keeping the most scandalous and provocative of them under lock and key in a special room in the Boston Public Library.

The reference to the Boston Sewing Circle is a reference to the fact that Boston in the nineteenth century was flooded with “sewing circles.” They were the premiere vehicle for gossip and also for social standing.

The book A Pickle for the Knowing Ones really was written by a man called Timothy Dexter who called himself a “lord.” He really did once throw his own funeral and yell at his wife for not faking her mourning convincingly enough. He also did fill his yard with statues, including of himself. And the book did not contain punctuation, just as Selkie describes.

I had a lot of fun going through the city I was living and picking out all the elements that I thought could be supernatural. Do you have a place that you think is enchanted or magical?

Also, this week we’ll be interviewing Selkie’s mother, who is the villainess of the book. Who’s your favorite villainess? (Mine is Cruella De Vil, I think.)

?What I think?

I would have to say that my fav villain is going to end up being Maleficent from the new movie coming out on the 30th.  It looks so good and it really looks like it is going to paint her as a good guy gone bad.  But if I had to pick one from a book etc.  I would have to say the snow queen via The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The prequel novella is now available, and it’s free! Go and download it!

Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information. Answer this weeks questions! Who’s your favorite villainess? (the author's is Cruella De Vil, she thinks.) Leave a Comment Below! 
Also check out this post via the author on her site!  She hopes you all caught the interview with Selkie’s aunts that she put up (http://www.skylardorset.com/an-interview-with-selkies-aunts/). 

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