The Call by Peadar O'Guilin
Published by David Fickling Books
Release date: 1st September 2016
Source: David Fickling Books via ED public relations, paperback proof copy.
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What if you only had 3 minutes to save your own life and the clock is already counting down...
Three minutes.
Nessa, Megan and Anto know that any day now they wake up alone in a horrible land and realise they've been Called.
Two minutes.
Like all teenagers they know that they'll be hunted down and despite all their training only 1 in 10 will survive.
One minute.
And Nessa can't run, her polio twisted legs mean she'll never survive her Call will she?
Time's up.
Today is my stop on the blog tour for the excellent new YA The Call by Peadar O'Guilin! I absolutely adored this book. I went in not really knowing anything about it and not knowing what to expect and it completely blew me away. I read it in one sitting, I rearranged plans to finish this book - it's that good.
Although The Call is a work of fantasy, it grew in Peadar's mind from Ireland's rich and complex history - from folk tales and conquests and whispers of magic. At the heart of the Ireland within The Call, is The Book of Conquests, an almost sacred text that holds details of survivors and in Nessa's mind, the key to survival. But this fictional Book of Conquests is in fact based on a real piece of Irish history.
Here's Peadar himself to tell us more about the real Book of Conquests:
Make sure to follow Peadar on Twitter. The Call is out now online and in all good bookshops!
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