"The Hunger Games meets Irish faerie folklore - this is dystopian fantasy at its most gripping, and grimly imaginative."
Super-suspenseful and ferociously intense, Peadar O'Guilin’s The Call takes Irish Sídhe folklore into terrifying territory through a fresh and feverish YA fantasy thriller that tells an electrifying story of revenge and endurance.
As a result of society “working to keep its children innocent”, Nessa initially refuses to believe her parents when they finally disclose the “horrible truth” of what happens when kids hit their teenage years: “sometime during her adolescence, the Sídhe will come for her, as they come these days for everyone. They will hunt her down, and if she fails to outrun them, Nessa will die”. Such has the situation been in Ireland for 25 years. That’s how long the magical Sídhe have been taking and torturing teenagers as an act of revenge on the humans who banished them to the grim Grey Land beneath the earth. Given her “twisted legs”, Nessa’s parents are especially fearful for her future, but she’s nothing if not determined: “I’m going to live. And nobody’s going to stop me”.
In order to give adolescents some chance of staying alive, they attend special colleges to be trained in survival skills and schooled in Sídhe language and history. In the words of one teacher, “we trapped an entire race of people in hell for all eternity just so we could take their homes for ourselves”. Dark in the extreme, and enormously gripping, faeries have never been so outrageously horrifying, and fights for survival have rarely been so brutally conjured.
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The magical Sidhe have been expelled from their home and forced into the Grey Land - a place under the earth; a place of darkness and death. But now they've returned to take back what they lost.
All teenagers will be called, and when your time comes, you have to be ready to run or fight to the death. The vengeful Sidhe will grab you by surprise - you could be studying or hanging out with friends when suddenly you're pulled into their terrifying world, alone and hunted. Only one in ten will return alive - the rest subjected to a tortuous and painful death.
No one believes Nessa can survive The Call, but after years of torment and, worse, pity - she's determined to prove them wrong . . .
The perfect read for fans of Suzanne Collins and James Dashner.
The Call features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Young Adult Fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Fantasy, Thriller and Suspense, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Contemporary and urban fantasy
The Call is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Call was written by Peadar Ó Guilin and published by David Fickling Books
The Call has 330 pages
£8.09
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