The Uninvited
A small boy is with his mum and big sister the day the strangers came. They’re visiting a circle of stones with many other tourists, when he saw a strange blue light in
the air just outside the circle. He follows and reaches out for it…. and something opens in the air. A doorway…
A woman with red hair falls at the boy’s feet.
She is Faerie, and fleeing from a terrible force in her home. 100,000 Faerie folk soon follow her through the portal into our world.
Humankind is horrified at the invasion of these Uninvited guests. They look strange with their pointy ears and weird ways. For human ‘safety’, the Faerie are all locked up together in a camp named Glass Forest after their own home city.
Now, Fairie Samm Wolfback can hardly remember that day or the land he came from. All he has are two items his mum gave him, explaining they belonged to his father. These Faerie tools contain magic, like many of the Faerie folk themselves.
One of these tools helps Samm find things, and he is soon in a dangerous plot to try and get the Faerie folk home again. First, he must find the Faerie woman who opened the portal. A watchful old human, and an eerie circus lead Samm to the truth of the devastating war that his folk fled from.
Can he defeat the evil that caused it all, and save a young human boy who was at the beginning?
This fantasy novel begins in our world with a young boy’s curiosity. Exploring themes of immigration, otherness, and freedom, The Uninvited is a stunning read.
Following two boys in their lives after 100,000 Faerie folk appear in the UK, The Uninvited is cleverly plotted and page turning stuff.
A human boy finds himself mentally changed by their arrival, and a faerie boy is just trying to survive in the terrible camp humans have fenced him and his kind in.
It’s only together the problems can be solved – a powerful message for us all.
The premise might be explored in many children’s books, but The Uninvited takes the reader on a wild ride into fantasy, horror and freedom, all in one novel.
Loved it!
Author – Ross Mackenzie
Age – 10+
(2025, Action, Adventure, Bullies, Conflict, Courage, Family, Fantasy, Prejudice, Racism, Magical, Faery, Faerie, Refugee Camps, Portals, Otherworld, Theft, Monster, Circus)
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