It’s also the only fae-thriller mash-up I’ve ever seen. As it is now, The Mysteries is the best fae-thriller mash-up I’ve ever seen. A mind-blowing ending would have carried The Mysteries into 5-star territory. It was satisfying, but not epic or emotional enough for my liking. I had only one issue with The Mysteries – and that was that the resolution of the main storyline didn’t feel climactic enough. The Mysteries does an amazing job in balancing the unworldly aspect of the fae versus the view of a modern sceptic. There just is a certain something so fascinating about the fey, a quality that has intrigued people for centuries. Dance with Dragons Dying of the Light Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle) Fevre Dream The. The Mysteries held me enthralled for its slightly hefty 450 pages. Homeschool trials available for the first two Mysteries in each unit. A huge part of the book is a simple girl-gone-missing plot – until we find out that things aren’t adding up. Often a lack of certainty is frustrating in a book, but the plot kept moving through the mystery/thriller conventions it relies on. The fae aspect of the book doesn’t come to the foreground until relatively late, leaving the reader guessing and trying to form an image of the extent of supernatural-ness in the book. It took me a while to figure out what The Mysteries was about. There are several timelines in the book, criss-crossing, interspersed with short memoirs of historical people gone missing. It follows private investigator Ian, from his earliest encounter with a missing person in his childhood, to his latest disappearance case. The Mysteries is The Cuckoo’s Calling with fae. Published September 4th 2014 by Jo Fletcher Books
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