This book had the same feel I got from her first, Fairy Tale. Cyn Balog has a way of putting imperfect teenage boys up against another love interest who is not of our of time or place and out of his element. A sandman who helps you drift off to sleep and then comes to life! The concept alone of a Sandman left me starry eyed after I finished reading. The premise of this book is the stuff modern day fairy tales are made of.
Will he risk everything for a chance to be with the girl he loves? But Eron knows he won’t be able to forget Julia. Worse, Julia is facing dangers she doesn’t recognize, and Eron, as he transitions back to being human, may be the only one who can save her….Įven once they’ve become human again, Sandmen are forbidden to communicate with their charges.
Eron’s time as a Sandman is coming to a close, and his replacement doesn’t seem to care about his charges. In the past, Eron has broken rules to protect Julia, but now, when she seems to need him more than ever, he can’t reach her. Eron was human once too, many years ago, and he remembers how it felt to lose the one he loved. Just weeks ago, her boyfriend died in a car accident, and Eron can tell that she feels more alone than ever. After all, becoming too involved in one human’s life could prevent him from helping others get their needed rest.īut he can’t deny that he feels something for Julia, a lonely girl with fiery red hair and sad dreams. Though he can communicate with his charges in their dreams, he isn’t encouraged to do so. He is a Sandman, a supernatural being whose purpose is to seduce his human charges to sleep. Ages 12–up.07 Oct, 2010 by Heather in sleepless 4 commentsĮron DeMarchelle isn’t supposed to feel this connection.
An intermittently gripping if not especially memorable addition to the urban faerie genre.
The plot of Balog's debut novel unfolds quickly, without much suspense, and while Morgan's voice is often entertaining, she feels somewhat remote as a narrator-it's difficult to get a sense of her as a character. While plotting to save Cam as he shrinks into a fairy, Pip and Morgan develop their own romance. As the teens' sweet 16 approaches (they share a birthday), Cam begins to grow wings, and his odd cousin Pip appears to explain that Cam must return to the Otherworld, enter into an arranged marriage and become king of that realm. I just deliver the mail I don't write it,” she says). Morgan has always possessed the ability to see into the future: who will get into Harvard, who is gay and whose relationships will last (“It's not my fault. Morgan and her football star boyfriend Cam have been “attached at the hip since kindergarten,” but now their love is threatened by the Otherworld-a land of fairies.
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