The Call
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4.4 • 73 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
You have three minutes to save your life . . .THREE MINUTESYou wake up alone in a horrible land. A horn sounds. The Call has begun.TWO MINUTESThe Sidhe are close. They're the most beautiful and terrible people you've ever seen. And they've seen you.ONE MINUTENessa will be Called soon. No one thinks she has any chance to survive. But she's determined to prove them wrong. TIME'S UPCould you survive the Call?A genre-changing blend of fantasy, horror, and folkore, The Call will never leave your mind from the moment you choose to answer it.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s hard to exaggerate the impact of The Hunger Games on teen fiction—the series has spawned a generation of young characters trained to survive harsh, horrific circumstances. The Call breaks the mold by weaving in Celtic mythology, pitting its willful heroine Nessa against the Sidhe, the malevolent fairies who wage battle on the Irish by whisking their teenagers away and hunting them down. It’s fresh and exciting, one of the most riveting adventures we’ve read in a while. Author Peadar O’Guilin has created a world that feel both intensely real and thrillingly spooky.
Customer Reviews
Best Book I've Read All Year
This is a fantasy story about Ireland and the fairy folk. It's a fantastic take about what would happen if the fairy folk tried to take back Ireland. The story is so well written that it pulls you in and doesn't let you have a moments rest. I read a great many books and have read some fabulous books this year, but this is easily the best one I've read thus far. I'm so interested to see what the author publishes next!
Good book, but could be much better
Although I did enjoy reading this book and it was a very different take on the dystopian genre, I feel that it could be a little more creative and have a deeper storyline than it does. The storyline moves very slow and uninteresting until the middle-end of the book, and the way the antagonist is defeated at the end is very uneventful and there was so much hype built around it when nothing really ended up happening. The love story is pretty cliche in a book like this, but it isn’t horrible and adds another layer of characterization. The imagining of the grey land and the sidhe are very creative and unique, and the rising of a main antagonist through the bigger problem adds a necessary character/character conflict.