“One day, my father walked into his Back Bay apartment to find a blond
woman asleep on his couch. Nine months
later, I appeared on his doorstep. One
year later, my aunts succeeded in getting him committed to a psychiatric
hospital.”
The Girl Who Never Was by Skylar Dorset is the story of Selkie Stewart,
who lives with her two great aunts and her father has been committed to the
psych ward. Selkie has never met her
mother, and only knows what her father has told her, which sounds like
gibberish. All she knows are her
great-aunts, her father, and Ben, a street vendor that she has been quietly
loving and is constantly making her feel happy.
After one trip to Salem, MA and entering a weird museum, Selkie begins
to ask the wrong questions or the right ones, depending on what side you are
on. The secret behind Selkie is that she
is half fey and half ogre, and she is part of a great prophecy. Depending on what side you are on, she is the
best or the worst thing to happen to the fey and other-worlders. Just
to add another ingredient to this mess, her mother is the fairy queen, who
rules with an iron fist, like most fey do.
Selkie must now choose which side she’s on, how she will help the people
she loves, and find out how to get out of her mother’s clutches. Quick urban fantasy read.
3 out of 5 stars, Thanks Net Galley.
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