![]() ![]() If her summer was perilous and dark, the weeks leading up to Samhain will be even more so. ![]() And so she gets to be a part of an adventure in which the charm-bracelet is much more central. In this sequel, Tanya comes back to spend the October holidays at her grandmother’s rambling rural estate of Elvesden, near the Essex market town of Tickey End. And if you think the Seelie Court faeries who rule over the seasons of spring and summer are a rough crowd, just wait until Samhain (Halloween) when the Unseelie Court takes over for the fall and winter. They steal human children, sometimes swapping them with faerie substitutes (changelings) that only look human while their glamour lasts. They have no morals, no compassion, no limits on their behavior but a twisted sense of fair-play. Faeries persecute people who can see them. ![]() The treasures were then little more than a talisman representing the harsh reality of dealing with faeries. But other than that, the book wasn’t really about the thirteen magical objects that gave it its name. ![]() In 13 Treasures, a silver bracelet strung with thirteen charms serves mainly as a link between twelve-year-old Tanya and a tragically short-lived ancestor who shared her gift, her curse: the second sight, or the ability to see faeries. ![]()
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