Among them is Jack, mercurial and magnetic, with secrets of his own. Instead, she's lured into the trees, where she finds strange and dangerous creatures who seem to consider her the threat. Now seventeen, she revisits the woods where Tom was taken, resolving to say good-bye at last. The trees swallowed her brother whole, and Jenny was there to see it. Also of Norse Myth, Sleeping Beauty, and King Arthur in a beautiful and intricate tale.The Treachery of Beautiful Things: A darkly compelling mix of romance, fairy tale, and suspense from a new voice in teen fiction
It's not a re-telling of Tam Lin, but you can see the echoes. The tale then goes on to invoke a Woodsman and his Goodwife, who had had a daughter named Hannah, Jack's calling her Jenny Wren, Jenny's talking to a tree, a crown made of flowers, her clothing getting washed, the true reason for the existences of jack-in-the-boxes, Jenny's being caught in a net, a piper who can make storms arise and roses entangle a foe, and much much more. And he's also oath-bound to help those on quests - as Puck reminds him.
Unfortunately, she had told him she was looking for her brother. When she tries that, they lead her off a good clip, and end up having her elfshot.Ī young man finds her there before she passes out, and from his point of view, we learn he, Jack, is the guardian of the edge. Chasing after, she finds herself deep in the forest, and a boy perched in a tree suggests she ask the Foletti - small, winged, beautiful as butterflies. Which is when she finds that Tom is in there. She tries to visit the woods again, to gain some closure.
Needless to say, on top of the family distress caused by his disappearance, no one believed her. Except that as he plays his flute, the forest comes to swallow him up. It opens with Jenny and her brother Tom returning home through a forest. This is a beautiful book - not too treacherous. The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long
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