Turning Pages this Summer by the pool, at the beach, or on the couch

I was reading the Wall Street Journal’s suggestions for Summer reads and Don’t Breathe A Word by Jennifer McMahon piqued  my interest.  Sure enough, we had a copy over in the fiction room so I took it home and read it in two nights. I read it on my couch but really think that it is a great page turner to read at the pool or the beach.

“Are you one of the chosen?”

Twelve-year-old Lisa, her cousin Evie, and brother Sam are constantly going on adventures in the Vermont woods behind their house.  Lisa is positive that Fairies live there and that the King of the Fairies is leaving her gifts.  One of the gifts she finds is  The Book of the Fairies, she decides that she is going to ‘cross over’ to the Land of the Fairies and become their queen.  She follows the instructions carefully and goes out one night and is never seen again.

It’s fifteen years later and Phoebe is in a relationship with a man who helps her conquer her fears of the dark and her nightmares.  She has never felt as safe with anyone as she does with Sam.  One day, Phoebe receives a phone call from a little girl:

“Tell Sam to look in the crawl space, behind the insulation.”

Sam immediately goes there and finds the missing Book of the Fairies.  Soon Evie contacts Sam and wants to meet at a cabin and talk about Lisa. When they arrive she shows them a note:

”I am back from the land of the fairies.  I’ll be seeing you soon. -Lisa”

All of sudden all of these strange and unexplainable things begin happening to Phoebe and Sam, and Phoebe begins to think that Sam is not telling her everything that he knows about the day that Lisa disappeared and soon a promise that Sam made is revealed that could ruin their lives forever.

Alright, I know that some of you are saying that you don’t want to read about fairies. I promise that you will not be disappointed. This is a story full of family secrets and is just plain perverse and creepy. Make sure that before you get in your lounge chair that you have a everything you need because you will not want to get up until you close this book!