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** spoiler alert ** Tamisin has always been a little strange. She can see things no one else can, and she has pointed ears and sparkly freckles she calls spreckles. She hides these things from other people at school because she doesn’t want them to make fun of her. After being selected and performing for her school’s elite dance group, Tamisin suddenly sprouts wings. When she confronts her parents about her birth and heritage, they finally admit that she was adopted, but they can’t tell her anything about her birth parents. Meanwhile, some of the things that Tamisin has seen have noticed her as well. The goblins have sent one of their own to find her and bring her back to their world. They plan to use her as a bargaining chip with her birth mother, Titania, the queen of the fairies.

While packaged attractively with an enticing cover depicting a very fey-looking girl with long blonde hair, sparkles across her cheeks, and purple iridescent wings, this story did not live up to its fetching promise. It seemed mass-produced. The characters were shallow and difficult to sympathize/empathize with. Their relationships with one another aren’t well-developed. The reader is supposed to believe that Tamisin’s parents love her, but they manhandle her when she shows them her wings � hurting her. There’s really no reason for this. And, although they’ve been family since Tamisin was a baby, they don’t seem very close. Tamisin is understandably angry that they didn’t tell her about being adopted, but she breaks away from them without giving them a chance and doesn’t seem particularly bothered that she’s all on her own. Baker basically starts over again about 50 pages into the book to change from Tamisin’s to Jak’s perspective. While the reader needs the information Jak has, there is no reason for his conversations with Tamisin to be repeated word for word � it’s already been said! Even with this excess verbiage, the story rushes along to its conclusion with little delay, and there’s little time or desire to linger and enjoy it. The only point of this exercise seems to have been to churn out a book of a certain length on a certain topic. It doesn’t stick to you at all. Unfortunately, because of its ending, you know there’s at least the possibility of a sequel.