Most do not.Īnd then there’s the psychological damage sustained by a people who first have to train for survival from the age of ten, then watch most of their classmates die anyway, then spend a day in the horrors of the Sidhe world. The characters who survive do so by sheer luck, despite their training.
The teens have all sorts of reactions – some give up immediately, some are overcome with panic, some had managed to not really believe it would happen to them despite knowing it would. O’Guilin takes us through many characters’ trips through the Sidhe world. These characters’ oppressors are a magical race from another world who live by entirely different rules, and the only thing known about them is the scraps brought back by the few who survive the Call. This isn’t like a YA dystopia where the characters are going to somehow overthrow their oppressors. She trains relentlessly at her survival academy, but the enemy is getting closer, and not all enemies are the ones waiting for her in the Sidhe world. Her legs were twisted by polio, but she’s determined to survive her Call anyway. Some survive, returning to the place they disappeared from in the human world only three minutes after the disappearance. And every day, across the nation, teenagers are “called” into the grey land of the Sidhe, to be hunted and toyed with for a day. There is no internet, no radio, no supplies. They were banished thousands of years ago, and now they plot to exterminate the population of the island. It’s been twenty-five years since the Sidhe began their revenge on the Irish.
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