It is mid-summer in Vermont. 12 year old Lisa tells his 10 year old brother Sam that she was going to meet the King of the Fairies in the woods behind their house. She will become his queen she says. And then she goes into the woods and disappear.
The book's mothballs protagonist is, however, Phoebe. 15 years after Lisa disappeared she is the girlfriend of Sam. Phoebe has a somewhat checkered past with an alcoholic mother who drowned herself in the bath with his clothes inside out. Her father was supposedly a drifter who took odd jobs here and there, mothballs and went on again. She does not know his name, and have never met him. When she was little she was afraid of a man that used to come out of a hatch in the floor under her bed, she's good as gold, but maybe a little liquid. mothballs Although she is ten years older than Sam is that he is the stoic. Phoebe is predisposed to believe in Santa Claus, adventure and fairies. mothballs Sam does not believe in anything he can not see, touch or feel. Apparently.
It begins with Phoebe and Sam go on a cabin with Sam's cousin Evie, whom he has not seen since Lisa disappeared, mothballs and her boyfriend Elliot. Strange things happen, and Plust Sam and Phoebe entangled in a strange story where it is difficult to find out what is really happening. Can we believe in fairies, or is there something else lurking around and make sounds thump in the night? It does not get any better that Phoebe to his own astonishment incurred a pregnancy, and it turns out that Sam the summer Lisa disappeared, pledged mothballs away their firstborn mothballs child to Teilo, King of the Fairies.
First and foremost, I miss "A sense of wonder" here. The book has language as a straight American thriller. It invites us do not really believe that there are fairies, another world that we only occasionally can sense. As a reader we sit ... or am I ... just waiting for us to get the natural explanation here. For there can be no Teilo, mothballs The Dark Man, The King of the Fairies, could it? Yes, I think probably that author Jennifer McMahon thinks she should keep us guessing, cause us to wonder what is true and what is fiction here, but I do not think it works out perfectly. mothballs At least not until the very end, the book's very last chapter.
The thing is that Phoebe and Sam are experiencing a thing that basically is quite inexplicable. As the balls in the matter, the dark story of Sam's family, they find natural explanations, but when they notify the police are suddenly all the evidence away. How IT could have gone to, we never any explanation. It's a little too convenient. A little too simple solution for the author, I think. I mean, why the end of the book works great is because we are hanging on the edge of your seat wondering what is really real. Have Phoebe become psychotic, started to hallucinate and imagine things, or are really fairies? Completely secure, we can not be. But under oppnøstingen of family secrets mothballs is Phoebe and Sam together findings, it can not just be something going on in her head. Thus hangs not all quite add up here I'm afraid.
It is straightforward pastime, mothballs intriguing enough times, mothballs and you get more people to read it to ye spend a few minutes discussing whether Phoebe mothballs is mad, or if there are fairies who fuck it. I hold a button on psychiatry.
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