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Troll Or Derby

Red Tash

Why we're reading this: In Troll Or Derby, fifteen-year-old Roller Deb is singled out by town bullies for both her skates, and fo…more
[close] In Troll Or Derby, fifteen-year-old Roller Deb is singled out by town bullies for both her skates, and for being different. When her popular homecoming queen of a sister is kidnapped by a scuzzy drug dealer, Deb must flee the trailer park in which she's grown up, and rescue her. Along the way, Deb becomes enmeshed in the magical realm of trolls and fairies, and the blood-thirsty version of roller derby at which these beings excel. But spending too much time among the fairies comes with a price. Will Deb choose to save her sister, with the aid of a mysterious troll? Or will she be lost to the lures of roller derby, and the blonde temptress April, forever?

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Jun 14, 2012 Red Tash added it · (Review from the author)

Shelves: dark-fantasy, paranormal, funny, fairies, roller-derby, troll, magic, teen, ya, indie

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Aug 02, 2012 Red Dwyer rated it it was amazing

Red Tash smashes stereotypical fantasy character types with the seedy underbelly of a rural town near you. In a gripping allegory of the "white trash" trailer park, along with its fancy trips to the big box store, Tash spins a web of fast-paced events with seamless intersections between roller derby fairies with drug slinging trolls and the harsh reality of life on the street for teenage runaways caught in the switches of the identity malaise which grips humans of that age.

The characters are ear ...more

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Jun 17, 2012 Ash Krafton rated it it was amazing

Shelves: urban-fantasy

I find myself endlessly captivated by Red Tash's work. Her stories take me a lot further down roads I otherwise wouldn't brave on my own.

Troll or Derby provides a refreshing look at the world of fae--all the pretty sparkly filters come off to reveal a tenacious stranglehold on the world of folklore.

Cheers, Tash--you made fairies my kind of fun again.

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Aug 25, 2012 Les Braddock rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This ain't your everyday Troll and Fairy story.

Take high intrigue, drug dealing, kidnapping and extortion and tie them all together with some of the darkest comedy, and what do you get? A WINNER!

Definitely a page-scroller (read in on Kindle for PC) from the very beginning to the "Oh my goodness what is going on with the action" ending. Quite the whirlwind ride.

the characters are fleshed (hided?) out really well, the allusions to song titles and awesome bands are incredible, and the mix of real a ...more

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Jul 11, 2012 Jessica McHugh rated it it was amazing

Original and Entertaining

I would like to start this review by stating that I'm also an author. I do this not for promotion, but to illustrate how much I love "Troll or Derby." When JK Rowling came out with the "Harry Potter" series, I was angry at myself. Why didn't *I* think of that?! This is the exact feeling I had while reading Red Tash's "Troll or Derby." I wish I'd had this idea. I also wish I was the main character, Roller Deb.

Red Tash created a world unlike any other. It seems as real as ...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Eric Garrison rated it it was amazing

It's books like Red Tash's Troll or Derby that restore my faith in the "modern fairy tale". This is no retelling of a tired old story. Troll or Derby is a fresh, original novel about trolls and fairies living among humans in southern Indiana. Fifteen year old Roller Deb is the heroine, and she is not your stock fairytale princess... she comes equipped with magic roller skates, fierce bravery, and a geas laid upon her to protect her sister from harm. As she becomes aware of the other world alongs ...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Axel Howerton rated it it was amazing

More brilliance from Red Tash, author of THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS. A modern day, adult-oriented dark fantasy. Like True Blood, but better. Less soap opera saucy, more ass-kicking savagery, wild derby chicks, monsters and mayhem. All of that, and more, in one of the most assured voices to emerge in this new era of self-pub and digital reading. Thrilling, charming and entertaining as hell. I loved the @$#% out of this book!

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