When Gwenhyvar arrives in Ireland to visit her cousin Findabhair, she expects to see the sights. Gwen can’t wait for their backpacking trip, which will take them to sites of the fairy lore. What neither cousin knows is that it's the summer of the Hunter's Moon, a dangerous time for mortals to meddle in the kingdom of Faerie. The girls camp out, and deep in the night Finn (Findabhair) is kidnapped by the handsome Faerie king. In Gwen's quest to save her cousin, across beautifully evoked settings of modern-day and mystical Ireland, the spunky heroine's biggest challenge may be convincing Finn she needs to be saved!
I actually came across this book by accident. I was in Walden books in Golf Mill (may it rest in peace) and I saw this book. It was about faeries and I had just finished reading Ironside (the third installment to Tithe) and I thought it might be interesting, so I went to the library and checked it out. The author, O.R. Melling, has a very different way of looking at faeries and how they live. There is also the fact that this story takes place in Ireland where as the setting of Tithe is in America. In the book she uses the places in Ireland as well as the language to make the reader feel like they are in the actually setting. Gwen (the main character) has to travel through Ireland to find Findabhair and the faeries. Along the way she meets some interesting characters and people who help her on her quest to get her cousin back. This book really interested me because the Gwen is an ordinary teenager who gets mixed up in faerie games and rituals. It kinda makes me wonder if things like this actually happen, where people who are minding their own business happen to stumble upon things that they aren’t supposed to no about or that they never even believed in from the start. I think it would be cool to have faeries living in this world and ordinary people just can’t see them because the put “glamour” on themselves. Glamour is what the faeries call it when they use magic on themselves to hide what they really look like from humans. Only people who believe in faeries can see them for what they really are. The detail in this book is also amazing. It made me feel like I was in Ireland and now I kinda wanna go there to see if it’s what I pictured it to be like. This book is really interesting and I will be reading the others that go with the series.
I actually came across this book by accident. I was in Walden books in Golf Mill (may it rest in peace) and I saw this book. It was about faeries and I had just finished reading Ironside (the third installment to Tithe) and I thought it might be interesting, so I went to the library and checked it out. The author, O.R. Melling, has a very different way of looking at faeries and how they live. There is also the fact that this story takes place in Ireland where as the setting of Tithe is in America. In the book she uses the places in Ireland as well as the language to make the reader feel like they are in the actually setting. Gwen (the main character) has to travel through Ireland to find Findabhair and the faeries. Along the way she meets some interesting characters and people who help her on her quest to get her cousin back. This book really interested me because the Gwen is an ordinary teenager who gets mixed up in faerie games and rituals. It kinda makes me wonder if things like this actually happen, where people who are minding their own business happen to stumble upon things that they aren’t supposed to no about or that they never even believed in from the start. I think it would be cool to have faeries living in this world and ordinary people just can’t see them because the put “glamour” on themselves. Glamour is what the faeries call it when they use magic on themselves to hide what they really look like from humans. Only people who believe in faeries can see them for what they really are. The detail in this book is also amazing. It made me feel like I was in Ireland and now I kinda wanna go there to see if it’s what I pictured it to be like. This book is really interesting and I will be reading the others that go with the series.
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Sounds like a cool and interesting book. Nice blog.
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