Nonetheless, I expected a much stronger story than what I read.

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The twisted Grey Land that Guiln has created is truly horrifying, but the capacity for human cruelty he puts on display is equally so.

I have read several books recently with fairies as a theme, but none of them come even close to the darkness of this book.

There were times when I felt my stomach turn while reading it, and yet I couldnt put it down because I HAD to know what would happen to Nessa when she was called.

She is intelligent, brave, and resourceful with an indomitable will to survive.

It is really refreshing to see a character with such a prominent disability reject the narrative that has been shoved down her throat by society.

Everyone believes her disability is a death sentence, but she works harder and smarter to defy the odds by honing her strengths.

Were they always so cruel Was there ever a time they co-existed with humans How was the Grey Land created Maybe some of these questions are answered in the second book.

Her characterization of the Sidhe really upped the creep factor I think the book got an additional 12 star from me for her performance alone.

Touching on mythology, post-apocalypses, and survival, The Call is a memorable read, and totally worth reading.

OGuillans story has more in common with an alien invasion story than your typical fairy-tale.

The few children left in an Ireland isolated from the rest of the world face nightmarish challenges such as abductions into an alien fae landscape, bodily mutilations and the very, very, VERY real possibility that neither they nor their friends will live to graduate high-school.

Great for fans of books like the Hunger Games, Tithe or Maze Runner.

I found the premise fascinating, between the Irish Mythology and the Hunger Games-like plot (as I thought the original Hunger Games could have done a lot more with the premise it had), but The Call rarely delivered on any of it.

At the beginning, I hoped that once Nessa entered the realm of the Sidhe, she would learn something about their species and maybe understand something deeper about why they were kidnapping children and torturing them.

They seemed instead to be building up to a larger battle between the humans and the Sidhe, which I was mostly fine with as a plot point.

But then the battle is mixed up with out One Dimensional Bully Characters obsession with Nessa, and her own Call.

Her Call is then cut short because of the ODBCs obsession and so she never has to endure the full call, so everything she has been training for the entire book suddenly doesnt matter.

Then, the final battle doesnt really result in anything changing on the large scale.

The epilogue makes it seem like what we were building towards was Nessas Call, but she barely gets Called at all She hasnt accomplished anything or changed as a character.

We as the reader havent learned anything new about their world that wasnt apparent at the beginning.

Nessa doesnt have new values or appreciation for life or anything of the sort.

It was helped by the brief time we spend in the Grey World through supporting character POV.

The Call Peadar O'Guilin Summary