The call
The callPeadar Ó Guilín
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The call (2016)

Peadar Ó Guilín

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

For the last twenty-five years every teenager in Ireland has been subject to "the call" which takes them away to the land of the Sídhe, where they are hunted for twenty four hours (though only three minutes pass in this world)--handicapped by her twisted legs, Nessa Doherty knows that very few return alive, but she is determined to be one of them.

ISBN:
9781338045611
Length:
307 pages

Genres: young adult

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this book slash audiobook was amazing blew me away with how intensely I was captivated by as soon as like I got to the last hour of it I was setting up for a book talk cuz I needed to talk about it because it was so intense

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Loved it

this book really messed me up basically imagine the Hunger Games but instead of 12 teenagers being chosen every year to go fight each other to the death every teenager in Ireland has to fight for their life against very dark and sadistic fairies it is dark it is gruesome it is unique