Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Magic Touch | 1996 | Jody Lynn Nye | Buy |
Jody Lynn Nye’s standalone novels consist of one book: The Magic Touch, published in 1996. The novel follows Ray Crandall, a young man living in Chicago who finds out he is a fairy godfather. Armed with a magic wand and the power to grant wishes, Ray tries to help the people around him while figuring out the rules of a bureaucratic fairy godmother organization that manages wish-granting across the world.
The book leans heavily into comedy, mixing fairy tale logic with the everyday frustrations of city life. Nye plays the magical bureaucracy for laughs, treating wish-granting as something closer to a government job than a mystical calling. The humor comes from Ray bumbling through his new responsibilities and clashing with the rigid structure above him.
The Magic Touch is a good example of Nye’s lighter side as a writer. Much of her work balances humor with fantasy, and this novel puts that combination front and center in a self-contained story that does not require familiarity with any of her other books or series.