Blurb:
One Elfy for an entire
planet?
He's supposed to be the
Watcher for his people, the representative on Earth from his dimension, but the
small being known to his enemies as "Jonny-Wonny" wakes up to big
trouble—trapped in a bizarre house in Knightsville, California with humans
straight out of reality TV. Jon knows that something has gone dreadfully wrong—he's
starving, lonely and dressed in funny clothes.
Enter the couple's
ten-year-old diminutive daughter, who is "Not Daisy!" but is
brilliant, sweet...and using high level magic with ease. She's also desperately
in need of a friend.
Insisting her name is
really Sarah, and christening him Bruno, his new friend asks him how they're
going to get out of there.
The only thing that
comes to mind is for Bruno to ask his teacher, Roberto the Wise, for help. But
Roberto's attempt at help only enmeshes all three of them further in a web of
deceit and treachery. Bruno finds out that, unfortunately, most of what he
thought he knew about himself was very wrong…and much of what Sarah knows about
herself is also wrong, including her age.
Worst of all, a Dark Elf
is on the scene and is intent on corrupting the local Humans, including Sarah's
parents.
New names, new
locations, a new mission—Bruno is going to get to the bottom of all the
craziness, and Sarah will be there for him every step of the way.
Watch out, universe—an
Elfy is on the loose!
Review:
When I started reading An Elfy on the Loose by Barb Caffrey, I
thought it was too cute for adult fare with phrases like “elfy-welfy” and “Jonny-wonny.”
Even the main characters eschewed those appellations. But, I thought my twelve year-old
granddaughter would love it. Then when I was cleaning out my e-mails, I came
across the first one I received from Ms. Caffrey in which she asked me to
review her YA (young adult) fantasy. Well of course! The book was aimed at my granddaughter! I revised my attitude and realized I was
reading a five-star book. An Elfy on the Loose had a wonderful
cast of good, bad, and possibly redeemable characters with plenty of secrets
that needed to be unraveled, as well as a huge disaster looming on the
horizon. It even had me on the edge of
my seat, wondering how Bruno and Sarah would save Bruno’s teacher, Roberto,
from being sacrificed by the Dark Elf at noon on May Day.
I was all set to give
this book five stars. Until it stopped. Just as they were preparing to confront the
Dark Elf. Maybe Ms. Caffrey doesn’t
think today’s tweens have the attention span to read a series if each book
stands on its own like Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, and The Hardy Boys did when I
was young. (Cherry Ames was the Nancy Drew of nursing. I read all of those books.) I haven’t read them, but according to a
colleague, each book in The Hunger Games series stands alone. But maybe that would be considered NA or new
adult. I’m not sure how much violence or
sex is in it.
At any rate, I hate
cliff-hanger endings, and in my opinion this wasn’t even an ending. I’m sorry Ms. Caffrey. I have to give this book a thorn. I don’t recommend it.
Length:
396 Pages
Digital
Price: $3.99
You’ll notice we always
include the publisher’s buy link. That’s
because authors usually receive 40% of the book price from the publisher. Editors and cover artists usually receive
about 5%. When you buy a book from
Amazon, Barnes & Noble or another third-party vendor, they take a hefty cut
and the author, editors and cover artists receive their cuts from what is
left. So, if a book costs $5.99 at
E-Book Publisher.com and you buy from there, the author will receive about
$2.40. If you buy the book at Amazon,
the author will receive about $0.83.
Downloading the file
from your computer to your Kindle is as easy as transferring any file from your
computer to a USB flash drive. Plug the larger USB end of your chord into a USB
port on your computer and simply move the file from your “Downloads” box to your
Kindle/Documents/Books directory. You can download your books onto your
computer using “Save As” to a “Books” file you create and sort them into
sub-folders by genre, author, or however you wish before transferring them to
your Kindle. That way, if there’s a glitch with your Kindle, the books are on
your computer. Your author will be happy you did when he/she sees his/her
royalty statement.
Thank you for your review, Donna. It was the publisher's decision to split up ELFY (one book, originally) into the ELFY duology. I'm currently writing a new first chapter to get everyone back into the second half of the original novel...the second half is called A LITTLE ELFY IN BIG TROUBLE and should be out in a few months.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I thank you for your kind words about my writing. I do appreciate it.
Barb Caffrey