Gather Her Round is an urban fantasy[1][2] novel by American writer Alex Bledsoe, first published in the United States in March 2017 by Tor Books.
[5][6] Bledsoe has emphasized the importance of songs to the Tufa, saying that they "manifest their faerie magic via music, and use its power to influence the world at large".
[8][4][9] At a storytelling festival, Janet tells a story of Kera Rogers, a Tufa youngster who is killed in the woods by a huge wild boar.
In a review in Fantasy Literature, Kat Hooper described Gather Her Round as "gruesome", "psychologically intense" and "the darkest and most disturbing TUFA story yet".
Bourke felt that while Gather Her Round does not "reach the emotional heights or graceful prose" of The Hum and the Shiver, it still is "a very satisfying read.
"[12] Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint wrote that Gather Her Round's giant killer hog reminded him of Joe R. Lansdale's 1998 novel, The Boar.