Katherine Harbour's Blog - Posts Tagged "hunger-games"

The Call
This is not a fairy tale, but horror, brutal and grim. Nessa and other young people live in a future Ireland closed off by an enchanted mist. When they're teenagers, they're sent to schools to learn the very necessary art of survival--because, at any moment, they could vanish into a horrifying otherworld for 3 minutes, during which they have to survive being hunted by the Sidhe, beautiful psychopaths with a penchant for transforming their victims into monsters.
Nessa was born with a disability in her legs that won't allow her to walk without extreme difficulty. But she's determined to survive, and learns to run with crutches. Then she beings losing friends to the Sidhe...
The story was a little depressing at first, like the Hunger Games with monstrous faery folk, but Nessa and her schoolmates are tough kids in a nightmarish world. I read this in two days, just to find out what was going to happen. That's a record for me.