The Society - Tales of the Garden 1
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Ages: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
One teenage girl.
One stone.
One faerie king to hit where it hurts.
Humans who visit the Garden choose a stone, have their eyes branded, then return home bewitched and enslaved to join the Society. That’s how it’s always been until teenage Jackie arrives.
When Jackie gets back to Earth, she discovers her baby brother is a changeling, she’s somehow top of the stone-carrying elite, and she’s joined her thrilled parents in some cultish self-help group. Their eyes glaze over when they say it’s hard being one of the chosen.
At the end of her tether, Jackie meets nonbinary Carlin, a glamorous oddball who feels like her only ally. Carlin says to release her brother, she must break one of the faerie king’s most ancient pacts.
Jackie’s confidence is flimsy at best, but she must summon the courage to take on the fae king or her brother will stay cursed forever.
The Society is the first book in the thrilling Tales of the Garden series, filled with terrifying fae, LGBTQ storylines, and reimagined Celtic legends.
Reviews
An excellent book for lovers of myth, magics and folklore - but also for parents of teenagers. The story takes the characters, and the reader, on a thought provoking journey into mystical realms and dark ethereal possibilities. Told from the point of view of a teenage protagonist and set in the mid 80's, this is a book to make the reader reminisce, reconsider fashion choices and reflect on what might have been - or indeed what might still be - regarding ancient beliefs, archaic faeries and adolescent attitudes. The garden does play a part in things, but not in the way one might expect ... ... ...
A truly immersive journey into a spell-binding mythological cosmos. The fierce power of sibling devotion and Jacq's compelling journey of self-discovery is truly moving and the perennial themes of prejudice, discrimination and feeling 'other' will resonate with a contemporary audience despite the warm nostalgic glow of the 1980s timeframe.
