Fern King doesn’t fit it, she looks different and she doesn’t have any friends. Her twin brother, Ollie, on the other hand, is popular and ‘good looking’. Fern and Ollie’s mother died when they were babies, and they have been brought up by their father, who doesn’t seem to try and hide his favouritism for Ollie. Fern yearns to know what it would’ve been like if her mother were still alive - would she feel loved?
The novel starts with a bang, in the thick of the action, we join Fern and Ollie’s mother in her final moments. Then we travel forward to when Fern is 15….this is when she starts to discover things about her mother - like the fact that she was a knight in Annwn, which is a dream mirror of Earth (or Ithr, as it is known in Annwn). In Annwn, dreamers walk around in their sleep, and nightmares can actually kill you. There are knights, whose job it is to patrol Annwn, protecting the dreamers and defeating the nightmares. There are also other roles, such as apothecaries who tend to any injured dreamers.
Fern and Ollie find themselves both in training to work in Annwn, and start to discover more about themselves, and their mother. As their training progresses it becomes obvious that there are dark forces at work in the dreamworld….forces that might just spill over into the waking world.
This is a fantasy novel aimed at the YA market, but I still found it enjoyable, and would happily read the rest of the trilogy when it is published.
The novel starts with a bang, in the thick of the action, we join Fern and Ollie’s mother in her final moments. Then we travel forward to when Fern is 15….this is when she starts to discover things about her mother - like the fact that she was a knight in Annwn, which is a dream mirror of Earth (or Ithr, as it is known in Annwn). In Annwn, dreamers walk around in their sleep, and nightmares can actually kill you. There are knights, whose job it is to patrol Annwn, protecting the dreamers and defeating the nightmares. There are also other roles, such as apothecaries who tend to any injured dreamers.
Fern and Ollie find themselves both in training to work in Annwn, and start to discover more about themselves, and their mother. As their training progresses it becomes obvious that there are dark forces at work in the dreamworld….forces that might just spill over into the waking world.
This is a fantasy novel aimed at the YA market, but I still found it enjoyable, and would happily read the rest of the trilogy when it is published.