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A girl who can see fairies is persecuted by them for second sight. Fed up with her stranger behavior, her mother packs her off to grandmother's strange, old, rural house. Soon she stumbles upon other odd goings-on, including baby disappearances.
I don't have anything really negative to say about this book, which I read about 100 pages of. The characters weren't interesting to me, the writing seemed kind of flat, the story was familiar. But it was okay, I didn't find it painful or anything. I woul ...more
Nov 07, 2009
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While exploring the same kind of world as Wicked Lovely and Strange Angels, this book is a younger version and will be a great way to get those readers into this genre. The themes of the changeling child, Seelie/Unseelie Courts, second sight, faeries and all that will be new to younger readers; however, for older readers, there's no new twist.
The world Tanya inhabits feels familiar to any reader of Nesbit or Eager (or Boston or pick another faerie fantasy author) and yet because there's no moder ...more
The world Tanya inhabits feels familiar to any reader of Nesbit or Eager (or Boston or pick another faerie fantasy author) and yet because there's no moder ...more
Tanya isn't your average girl - she has the second sight. For as long as she could remember, she had been able to see fairies. Unfortunately it wasn't always pleasant, and some of these fairies were decidedly nasty to her, if they thought she was doing something that might lead to their discovery.
Forced to spend the summer vacation with her grandmother, Tanya's life seems to go from bad to worse. Her grandmother doesn't want her around, and neither does the groundskeeper, whose son, Fabian, is a ...more
Forced to spend the summer vacation with her grandmother, Tanya's life seems to go from bad to worse. Her grandmother doesn't want her around, and neither does the groundskeeper, whose son, Fabian, is a ...more
