Recommended.
Set in a boarding school for young children who are preparing for the day they will be called to Faerie, almost everyone dies who is called and no-one is quite sure why they survive. These are the faerie of myth, not the twee bewinged creatures, but the angry creatures who were exiled to the underworld by human ancestors. These are the creatures our ancestors feared and who they warned about, not the sanitised Disney versions.
Nessa had polio and her legs are going to make it hard to run, in fact a lot of parents with children crippled like this kill them to spare them the inevitable death, but Nessa is determined to survive. Her survival will change things and dammit I want the next book now.
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