Description
The fog is coming. And when it does, everything disappears . . .
One girl. Two identities. Three friends.
One disappears. One forgets. One remembers.
There is truth in every tale . . . Find it!
A frighteningly creepy supernatural YA thriller that chills to the bone with imagined and real horrors.
Review
This is a wonderful story drawing on The Brothers Grimm fairy tales and set during the Second World War that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
What is good during a war? Who can you trust?
Hannah lives in Stuttgart, Germany in 1942. The war is raging and Jews, like her, are being taken. Her father takes them to a house to hide in a basement, where life is very grim. But when the family of the house are out for the evening and bombs are dropped that kill that family and her own, Hannah is the only one left. She is badly injured, but luckily a quick-thinking nurse convinces her to take on the identity of the daughter of the house, Sofia Meyer. She is sent into the hills to live with Sofia’s Aunt Maud, a grumpy, stern old woman.
She makes friends with two boys and endears herself to the head of the German forces stationed in the castle that overlooks their village. But she is always on guard and doesn’t really know who to trust.
Slowly, she uncovers strange goings on. Children are going missing and nobody seems to miss them, even their own families. Hannah needs to find out what they are experimenting with in that castle to try to prevent more disappearances.
And what about Aunt Maud? Might she be hiding a secret of her own?
This is a terrifically woven story, set in a horrible period of human history, but also intertwining terrible fairytales where children are taken and evil intent abounds. With a tenacious young female character, it is a truly engrossing and spooky story. With themes of war, injustice, human experimentation, fairy tales and determination, it is an ideal novel for readers aged 13 to 16 years.
