13 Treasures

I have a thing for titles. And libraries. So when I found this title in my library, I thought, 'Sure. Why not?' I admit, after getting it home and taking a second glance, I thought it seemed a bit familiar: the story of a child on the verge of growing up who can see strange things -fairies- and goes away to an isolated farm/manor where something bad happens, but everyone manages to correct it. 

Well. Tanya, our heroine, is a bit unusual in that really, no one likes her. Her "episodes" (not so nice encounters with the fairies that leave everyone thinking she's a potentially psychotic, attention-seeking brat) finally wear out her mother's nerves, she she is shipped off to her grandmother in the countryside. Except her grandmother doesn't like her, to put it simply. The groundskeeper doesn't trust her, and his son is fairly weird himself. 

Considering how well-trodden this plot line is, I was glad to read Michelle Harrison's rendition. Plenty of twists, some information I hadn't seen. Enough to make it worthy of it's title and my subsequent shelf lifting.

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