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What I usually don’t like of the Fantasy genre is the heavy setting; sincerely I’m more for a “light” reading experience. So it’s always with a little of caution that I approach such novels, even if, like in this case, what I heard of them is only positive things. It was then with surprise, good surprise, that up from the first pages, the story flowed easily, light and also a bit sexy. Miles is not exactly a total positive character, he is whiny, depressed and also a bit arrogant; due to the economic downfall, he lost his white collar job in the big city and he is not back home, living in a trailer and continuously saying how much better his life was before, that he doesn’t deserve such fate, and maybe even thinking that he is better than the people around him. He is only lucky that he has really good friends near him, and not like those in the city, who promptly forgot him as soon as he is no more “one of them”.
I don’t know if the fate wanted to award or punish him, but Miles finds himself involved in an adventure with fairies, beasts and dark lords. In and out of a sleep that sometime is dream something is nightmare, Miles falls in love with Harry, that I think is a similitude with Miles’s actual situation: Harry, the beast, is Miles’s today life, simple, good and sincere, even if maybe not so nice and shiny, while Terris, the fairy, is what Miles left behind. And indeed, when he is first faced with the choice between Harry and Terris, Miles chooses Terris, since he is more beautiful, more alluring, even if Harry was offering love, and Terris instead was offering lust.
Miles’s adventure will be totally involving, a bit naughty, and plenty moving, but to me has never reached the point I feared for him; I have always felt like the happily ever after was possible, and that in a way of the other, Miles would be able to understand what is really important in life. Maybe since, after all, all this fantastical adventure happened in the back door yard.
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Amazon: Miles and the Magic Flute
Amazon Kindle: Miles and the Magic Flute
Paperback: 214 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (June 7, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1615814353
ISBN-13: 978-1615814350
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Cover Art by Anne Cain
What I usually don’t like of the Fantasy genre is the heavy setting; sincerely I’m more for a “light” reading experience. So it’s always with a little of caution that I approach such novels, even if, like in this case, what I heard of them is only positive things. It was then with surprise, good surprise, that up from the first pages, the story flowed easily, light and also a bit sexy. 
Serendipity is at the same time very romantic but also a little sad. It’s strange since it’s not that level of sadness that makes me think why I read it, and in a way, there is hope, albeit a slight hope, that an happily ever after will await the main character, Jake. 
Serendipity is at the same time very romantic but also a little sad. It’s strange since it’s not that level of sadness that makes me think why I read it, and in a way, there is hope, albeit a slight hope, that an happily ever after will await the main character, Jake. 
