Karen answers “I won't have read this book if I had known...”

Deborah asked this question about In the Woods:

I won't have read this book if I had known that the first mystery would not be solved. I dislike intensely books that do this. What is your opinion?

Karen I just finished this book and I have read most of the comments. One thing that I have noticed in them is that no one mentions Rob's memory of the cast…moreI just finished this book and I have read most of the comments. One thing that I have noticed in them is that no one mentions Rob's memory of the castle or the secret garden. This is Ireland. The veil between our world and the Fae world is thin. No one but Rob seems to know that the castle and the garden exist. There is no mention of a castle near Knocknaree and he makes a point of saying that if there was such a garden the archeologists would have found it. I think it is because these things exist in the Fae world that the children were able to cross over to somehow. Another thing that the comments don't mention is the blood found at the alter and the hair clip that looked like Jamie's. I think that the children had crossed into the Fae world where something horrible happened. In most cultures, victims of sacrifice had to be unblemished. Rob believed that he had been left out of something because he was lacking. Jamie and Peter were accepted. Perhaps for some type of ancient ritual that Rob witnessed before fleeing back to his own world.
Sandra's rape was another type of sacrifice and for a short time i think the teenagers were beyond the veil into Fae as well, thus Jonathon's description of what happened following the rape. Of course you would have to buy the magical theory to think that all this was viable. I find it more plausible than Adam killing his friends, hiding the bodies where hundreds of searchers could not find and only getting blood in his shoes rather than his clothes, hair and hands, but there it is.(less)

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