For this oh so spooky season!
When Iris Hollow was seven years old, she and her two sisters disappeared for a month, only to reappear with no memories of where they’ve been or what had happened to them. Now ten years later, Iris’s oldest sister has gone missing again. Iris and Viv, the middle sister, must follow the breadcrumbs that Grey has left behind. However finding Grey means finding out the truth, the horrible secret Grey has been keeping from Iris all along.
I picked this up thinking I was getting a faerie changeling, Holly Black’s Folk Of Air type story. Instead what I got was more of a beautifully grotesque T. Kingfisher’s The Twisted Ones tale. We start with our desperate to be an average teen just living her life and descend farther and farther into the bizarre mystery of what actually happened to her and her sisters as children. There were many lovely and gory ‘decadent flowers growing on decaying corpses’ descriptions that are going to be lodged in my head for a while. A quick but very dark young adult fairy tale that gets two black lace gloved thumbs up from me!