A review by intotheheartwyld
The Green Children of Woolpit by J. Anderson Coats
5.0
I completely fell in love with this dark fae inspired story that was pulled from the Middle Ages.
You follow two point of views, one is Agnes, and the other is the Green Girl.
Agnes is this sweet 12 year old child who loves telling stories and has a terrible time making friends with the other kids in the village. So naturally when she hears the cries of a child in the nearby forest, no one believes her.
The Green girl just wants to get out of a bargain her people made with the Those Good People [the fae] And she will stop at nothing to get out of it, including lying and backstabbing.
The whole idea of the fae people loving bargains and trickery is used in this tale and it makes for some pretty dark bargains with these childrean. I loved the continuing theme that Agnes loved stories and wanted to be that girl in that story. She was always formulating tales in her head as the book went on, and it proved to be a big part of her resolve to keep going even though it all looked so bleak.
I believe the story does a good job telling how desperate anyone can become when trying to escape a situation they don't want to be apart of anymore, but how simply asking for help could get one to the same conclusion without hurting so many others in the process.
So many innocent people where used and hurt in this tale by the choices certain characters made, and while some could have been avoided others proved to not be so, dealing with the fae are always tricky.
Its a sweet, dark and compelling tale, that kept me turning pages right from the start.
You follow two point of views, one is Agnes, and the other is the Green Girl.
Agnes is this sweet 12 year old child who loves telling stories and has a terrible time making friends with the other kids in the village. So naturally when she hears the cries of a child in the nearby forest, no one believes her.
The Green girl just wants to get out of a bargain her people made with the Those Good People [the fae] And she will stop at nothing to get out of it, including lying and backstabbing.
The whole idea of the fae people loving bargains and trickery is used in this tale and it makes for some pretty dark bargains with these childrean. I loved the continuing theme that Agnes loved stories and wanted to be that girl in that story. She was always formulating tales in her head as the book went on, and it proved to be a big part of her resolve to keep going even though it all looked so bleak.
I believe the story does a good job telling how desperate anyone can become when trying to escape a situation they don't want to be apart of anymore, but how simply asking for help could get one to the same conclusion without hurting so many others in the process.
So many innocent people where used and hurt in this tale by the choices certain characters made, and while some could have been avoided others proved to not be so, dealing with the fae are always tricky.
Its a sweet, dark and compelling tale, that kept me turning pages right from the start.