If you like fairy tales
Try Faerie Tale by Raymond E Feist, well before Urban Fantasy was cool - this was a good spine tingler.
When I hear “mysterious race of beings” on the back of a book, my mind goes straight to aliens, not strange, supernatural, fairy-like creatures, so The Glittering World wasn’t quite the book I thought it would be. It’s being pitched as a Neil Gaiman-esque kind of story and you can see why the publisher went there. The novel …