Twelve-year-old Tuva, a schoolgirl living on one of the sparsely inhabited islands in the Swedish archipelago near Stockholm has been ostracized by her classmates but she doesn’t know why. She has scary, recurring dreams. When she sees lights that focus into faeries as she follows one of the boys during a school orienteering outing, she begins to think she’s going mad. But the truth about her heritage and abilities is even stranger than that. The mysteries about what happened to her as an infant are tied to recent disappearances of people she knows. It was interesting that the authors also brought into the story the current eutrophication of ocean waters due to climate change. The language in this translation to English was wonderful. Although classified as a YA or even pre-teen fantasy, likely because of the age of the protagonist as my books are, adults would definitely enjoy the story.
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