Faery Swap: Middle Grade Fantasy

Susan Kaye Quinn

Dec 2019 · Twisted Space LLC

About this ebook

Warrior faery princes can be very stubborn. Especially when they possess your body. Fourteen-year-old Finn just wants to keep his little sister out of Child Protective Services—an epic challenge with their parentally-missing-in-action dad moving them to England, near the famous Stonehenge rocks. 

Warrior faery Prince Zaneyr just wants to escape his father’s reckless plan to repair the Rift—a catastrophe that ripped the faery realm from Earth 4,000 years ago and set it adrift in an alternate, timeless dimension. 

When Zaneyr tricks Finn into swapping places, Finn becomes a bodiless soul stuck in the Otherworld, fighting spriggans with sharp teeth and rival faery Houses. Back on Earth, Zaneyr uses Finn’s body to fight off his father’s seekers and keep the king’s greatest weapon—himself—out of his hands. Between them, they have two souls and only one body… and both worlds to save before the dimensional window between them slams shut.

Faery Swap is an action and druid-magic filled portal fantasy, told by both a runaway faery prince and the boy he’s tricked into taking his place. This Prince and the Pauper meets Warrior Faeries tale is suitable for all ages. 

Includes four interior illustrations.

KEYWORDS: middle grade fantasy, sword, sorcery, magic, quest, action, adventure, preteen

Ratings and reviews

I'm not in the target demographics (MG; I usually only read down to YA) but I enjoyed this all the same! Hmmm actually, to amend that--I think Quinn is capable of writing for all ages, no matter what demographics she aims for. The story is both exciting and compact; she leads you where you need to go without extraneous waffling, and she always goes for the emotional punch. In the same way CS Lewis' Narnia and Dianne Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series can be enjoyed by readers of all ages, Quinn writes for young readers without talking down to or at them. Faery Swap captures and preserves that timeless essence of childhood, with both the joys and the fears of a fourteen-year-old, and launches us into an adventure that spans both the modern world and the faery world.

About the author

Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from gritty Future-Noir to philosophical HopePunk, with side trips into royal steampunk romance and middle grade fantasy. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German and French, and featured in several anthologies.

She writes full-time from Chicago, inventing mind powers and dreaming of the Singularity.