This is one of those books -- series, actually -- where you'll need to reread it several times to get through all the layers, unpack all the hints and images and suggestions, and probably have some interesting arguments with fellow readers over what's implied and promised and should have happened and didn't happen, but might in future books. With very strong Arthurian fantasy overtones.
Yeah, lots of fun.
Once I started reading, I had to keep reading.
Brinnie is not happy to be sent to visit an uncle she didn't even know she had, when her parents don't want to include her on a trip to see her sister. The sister who has always been the favored one. She doesn't get along with her mother at all. It's like she can't seem to do anything right.
Until she struggles through the woods to Wraithwood, her uncle's estate, and odd events start to pull back the curtains of her life and give hints that there is so much more to her world, her family, herself, than she could ever have guessed. Suddenly, her mother is the rebel, not Brinnie, and she is far more like her mother than she could ever have guessed. She faces incredible danger as well as incredible opportunities, if she makes the right choices.
Her family is part of a secret society, perhaps a secret, magical race, perhaps part of mythology, part of a battle between unnatural or supernatural forces. Who can be sure? Because she doesn't get many straight answers.
And worst of all, at the end of the summer, she is sent home and expected to basically act as if the summer never happened, she never learned anything about herself, she never learned to control the unusual gifts she possesses. How can she forget what happened at Wraithwood?
Read the book, and you'll never be able to forget, either. Wow ... well deserving of the nominations and accolades from Realm Makers.
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