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HaBO: Mind-Controlling Fairy Disguised as an Elegant Lady

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This HaBO request comes from Diana. She wants to find this book, mainly to see if a sequel exists. Content warning for the loss of a child and abuse:

I am trying to remember the name of a book that I’m not sure I liked, but whose sequel I still somehow want to read.

It involved a modern day woman who accidentally travels to another world during a walk. She goes up a hill and there is… a cemetery? a garden? She meets a super elegant lady who turns out to be a fairy who mind controls her so that she’ll marry and breed with the fairy’s son. The son is an asshole and also turns into a dragon sometimes I think.

She gets pregnant but miscarries when the son (who is maybe a fairy prince?)… throws her down the stairs during a fight or something?

Anyway then there is a crotchety wizard who rescues her and then grudgingly teaches her magic while feeling tortured feelings. At the end, she goes back to her own time, assures her family that she is not dead, and is convinced by her sister that she should go back to the sexily withholding wizard because it’s just like Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. At this point I literally yelled, “Oh my god stop taking romantic advice from 13 year olds and have a talk with your sister about how she should be treated by others!”

But it turns out I am actually a sucker for maladjusted crotchety awkward grumpsters who need you to teach them how to love, so now I really want to read the sequel. Please help!

All I can say is…wow. Wow. Wow. WOW.

Sarah: “Maladjusted crotchety awkward grumpsters” should be a tag and an entire line of novels.

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  1. Kathy says:

    The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Baker. No question 🙂 That or there are multiple books with that plot, which would be … something

  2. Kathy says:

    I was also unsure if I liked it, and considering I listened to all 26 hours, 21 minutes of it, that was quite the long haul to not to be able to make a decision

  3. LongStrider says:

    If it is the book Kathy suggests, the author’s last name is Barker and the sequel is not yet out. Last mention on the author’s blog is from March 2018 with no release date. https://emilycroybarker.com/news-events/

  4. Liz says:

    The first half of that description sounds more like a bad trip than an actual book.

  5. Laura says:

    This book is available as an ebook through my library so I’mma just download this real quick… See you next week!

  6. Sophydc says:

    My God, that is exactly how I felt about this book. Ate it up and then felt kind of sick. Like eating something really yummy that makes you feel like shit.Really good world building and everyone was kind of horrible. But really well written!I would still read a sequel…

  7. MH says:

    I actually knew a HABO! I liked this book despite myself. The second half was really good, and I will definitely check out the sequel when it comes out.

  8. Jennifer in GA says:

    Wait. I OWN that book and haven’t read it yet, but I the plot description that made me read it…wasn’t that! o_O

  9. Diana says:

    Yay thank you guys! Both for the book title (although whyyyy is there no sequel yet?!?!) and also for validating my emotions about this book. I’ve never felt more seen.

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