One day, a small girl named Lisa leaves her house and is
never seen again. All anyone knows is that she told her
older brother Sam that she was going to meet the King of
Fairies. Behind their house, in the woods, the legend goes,
is where the small town of Reliance used to be. It vanished
overnight, and now the woods are shrouded in mystery and myth.
Flash forward fifteen years. Sam is now dating Phoebe, who
had actually visited the scene outside of the sibling's
house (unbeknownst to Sam) fifteen years ago. The fact that
they meet and begin dating later is a mere coincidence,
although Phoebe has a particular reason to be interested in
this case, which is the first scene in which the reader has
to suspend disbelief. Sam and Phoebe begin receiving clues
that Lisa may be alive, and as they begin investigating
these clues, mysterious things begin happenings to them that
make them question their own sanity and reality.
The book is told alternating between present time and
fifteen years earlier. The present-day chapters focus on
Phoebe and the chapters from fifteen years ago focus on
Lisa, but each chapter is told in third person, which makes
it easier for the reader. While the present-day action was
fast-paced and exciting, the "historical" chapters were not
nearly as thrilling. While what unfolded in those chapters was
necessary to understand what was going on in the present-day
chapters, I don't think it was necessary to have them
interwoven. I found myself rushing though the historical
chapters both because they dragged and because the
present-day chapters were so much more suspenseful.
I found the ending to be a mixed, some of the
components were predictable and some caught me completely
off-guard. The author definitely showed a flair for the
creative, and her characters were well-developed (the adults
more so than the children). Overall, a decent book that
fans of both mystery and thriller genres should enjoy.
They say if you pass by on the right night of the year,
you'll hear the devil whisper your name . . .
Once upon a soft, summer night in a small New England town,
a 12-year-old girl named Lisa went into the woods behind her
house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she
told her little brother Sam about a door—hidden among the
ruins of an old town long forgotten—that led to a magical
place. A place where she would meet Teilo, the King of the
Fairies, and become his queen.
Sam didn't believe in fairies, ghosts, or anything
supernatural back then, and now, 15 years later, he still
doesn't. It's one of the many things that his girlfriend,
Phoebe, loves about this practical, sensible man. Sam
doesn't have bad dreams, doesn't avoid the shadows, and does
not fear the dark. Instead, he helps her ignore her own dark
nightmares.
But a series of eerie occurrences—beginning with a
mysterious phone call—begins to challenge Sam's hard-headed
realism. Could there be a world beyond their own and is Lisa
somehow a part of it? As events spin out of control, the
couple finds themselves falling deeper into a vortex of evil
and terror. And suddenly Sam is reminded of a terrible
promise he made years ago . . . a promise that could destroy
them all.
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