In the town of Fortune’s Well a dangerous storm is brewing, and two unsuspecting teenagers are standing right at the heart of it.
For JJ Carson, life has not been easy. His father is dead, his mother arrested for the murder, and he has been forced to live on the farm with his alcoholic uncle, Henry. Just when things could not get any worse, JJ discovers his living situation is not the only thing that makes him different from the other kids. A dark, swirling mist has made itself at home inside him and it is slowly changing him from the inside out.
Enter Darcie Duffield. Beautiful, popular, and incredibly misunderstood. Darcie is sick of the status quo and wants to make a difference. After a chance meeting with a strange boy at the river she becomes tangled in a web of lies and deceit as she tries to help save him from the darkness lurking within.
Why is this happening?
Where has it come from?
And why is Darcie the only one who can see it?
Review:
First book in Fortune’s Well series and a great start what I feel will be a fab YA/supernatural world series. I still love reading stories aimed at a young audience, especially those that combine the world of magic and mystery with reality of the challenging world of growing young adults.
Darcey grew up with a wealthy family, has trendy friends and seem to have it all. Underneath, she is hurt, fragile, struggling to fit in anywhere in the world since the death of her favourite Aunt Jenna. On top of that she is dealing with an eating disorder.
Until her life clashes with the boy from the river – in comes JJ Carson. Mysterious boy always sketching on his pad, bullied by all the locals. The boy, whose mum murdered his father in cold blood. JJ lives with his father’s brother Henry, who himself struggles with alcohol, running a farm and looking into the eye of a boy that reminds him too much of his brother’s killer. And most of all, Henry worries, JJ will end up like his crazy mother.
And amongst all of this we have the mysteries grey fog, Hangman’s Cottage with it’s own dark secrets and a whole world of weird that JJ and Darcey unwillingly enter when they meet and it’s up to them to figure a way out and quickly.
Fab start, cannot wait to read the next book.
Thank you to TBConFB and the author for access to this book.
Rating: 4/5
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