Wood Sprites by Wen Spencer

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Wood Sprites
by Wen Spencer

Series: The Tinker Series

Publisher: Baen Books

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Book 4 in the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning Elfhome series.

Even though they attend a school of gifted students in New York City, child geniuses Louise Mayer and her twin sister Jillian have always felt alone in the world, isolated by their brilliance. Shortly before their ninth birthday, they make an amazing discovery. They’re not alone.

Their real mother was astronaut Esme Shenske and their father was the famous inventor, Leonardo Dufae. They have an older sister, Alexander, living on the planet of Elfhome, and four siblings still in cryogenic storage at the fertility center. There’s only one problem: the frozen embryos are scheduled to be destroyed within six months. The race is on to save their baby brother and sisters.

As a war breaks out on Elfhome and riots start in New York City, the twins use science and magic to plow over everything standing in their way. But when they come face to face with an ancient evil force, they’re soon in over their heads in danger.

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Published: 9/2/2014

SKU: 9781476736716

Ebook Price: $6.99

1. charlie on 4/1/2015, said:
Contemporaneous with the first two Elfhome novels, and fills in a lot of backstory. I have issues with the "spirits of the unborn" but otherwise, the story seemed to end too abruptly, and without a proper d
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2. Edward L on 2/10/2015, said:
A wild ride into childhood and a fantastic way to convey a lot of backstory to earlier Elfhome books. If you have ever had to deal with very talented kids, you will recognize that Wen got the twins spot-on.
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3. Karen on 1/21/2015, said:
I had read 'Eight Million Gods', but this is my first Elfhome story and was a little hard to follow....So I found 'Tinker' and 'Bare Snow Falling on Fairywood' and am now caught up. I think 'Wood Sprites' will end up being my favorite because I like the pace and the action ....BUT, now I have to read 'Elfhome' and 'Wolf who Rules' and the other free stories ... and may as well finish out the list with 'Endless Blue'.... putting in the cc now.
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4. Jennifer on 10/20/2014, said:
Do not make this the first Wen Spencer or Elfhome story you read! If it's too late and you've already done that, please give her another shot. Wood Sprites is not at all a good representation of her work. She's a fantastic writer with many wonderful stories to tell. If you love Wen Spencer"s writing you may wish to pass this title up. The main characters are so flat that suspension of disbelief was impossible for me. Real children grieve deeply and these did not seem to grieve at all. They felt like they had no past existence whatsoever and none of the depth of feeling actual people have. The whole story seemed like a very, very clumsy pro-life and pro-personhood-for-fertilized-zygotes vehicle in which the protagonists were just there to move sacred fertilized eggs around. I adore almost everything else Spencer has written and I love her vibrant characters, particularly those in the Tinker universe. Not every book can be amazing and everyone falls short of their potential occasionally. This is one of those occasions.
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5. William on 9/11/2014, said:
I absolutely love seeing things from the earth perspective. I want to see what will happen when Oilcan, Tinker, and Wind Clan finds out about them. To the 4 that are being hatched from an egg. Wonder how this will workout. Can't wait to see what happens next. Wil Wagner
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6. David on 8/23/2014, said:
This is a great addition to the elfhome/Tinker series. While the two main protaganists are age nine the story deals with action, hardship, adventure, love, and loyalty. I hope the author has more in store for Louise and Jillian in the near future.
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7. max on 8/17/2014, said:
wheel written book parallel to the story line of tinker woo dent have minded more connections between the story
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