Our Lovely Holiday is at an End.

Our holiday is sadly over, but it has been a super lovely 3 days. The B&B was nice, the weather held up and we found an amazing fish restaurant which is probably one of the best places I have ever eaten!  

Our day trip to Whitby to yesterday lived up to all my expectations, like I said in the previous post I have wanted to go there for years. It was so quaint and had so many little quirky shops, the local jet that was on sale was spectacular unfortunately I have expensive tastes and couldn't quite stretch to the pieces that I liked. I can't wait to go back and spend more time there so we can explore more and have an adventure to the abbey on the cliff. 

After our meal yesterday night we walked back to the B&B along the harbour and we came across these spooky boats all lit up. It was amazing how big these beasts look out of water.

On our way home today we stopped by at York to break the journey up a little bit. I decided to take nine snaps of the minster and try and glue them together and this is what it turned into. York is such a gorgeous city full of ghosts and history. We did a ghost walk last time we stayed there and it was really entertaining, nowhere near as scary as the ghost walk we did in Edinburgh though, I don't think I have ever been that scared in my life!

Anyway I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are looking forward to the week ahead.

Book Review - The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar.

I picked up this book in a wonderful little bookstore that stocked an eclectic mix of sic-fi, fantasy and graphic novels in Edinburgh. it was up a little cobbled street and the book shop owner was very quiet and book-wormish, I am a confessed bibliophile so I rationed myself to just one book! After a couple of laps around this little shop this caught my eye. I love anything to do with fairies and when I spied that the introduction was my Neil Gaiman my excitement grew. The deal was clinched when I read on the back that "It is a book for every girl with home-dyed hair and fairy wings...". Well for anyone who doesn't know I have fairy wings tattooed on my back and well this may be a shock but I am not a natural red head.

I picked up this book this morning and didn't put it down until I had finished it this afternoon. This book is a real gem, it characters are a mix of fairies and humans that are loveably flawed. The book is set in New York to a backdrop of run down apartments and the main human characters trying to make ends meet. I loved the juxtaposition of the grimy surroundings and the touching goodness of the fairies, even though the kindness is very well hidden at times under lashings of whiskey and bad language. I really enjoyed the hint of dark smut that was sprinkled throughout the pages as well as it gave it a real delicious edge. 

I am going to give this book 4 stars out of 5. This is because I loved this book and I thought the little details that helped to thread the plot together were really well thought out. The Fairies of New York is a surprising book and at times I was left thinking that Martin Millar must have had help from the fairies to manage to entwine all of the characters and events together in such a satisfying and diverse way. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because, even though I enjoyed all the characters and their relationships I didn't feel too sad to leave them behind, when I closed the last page of that book. But maybe that is down to Martin Millar tying everything up beautifully. So you'll just have to read it and decide for yourself.