| $@%&! level: Low (if any) “Bedroom” level: Low Violence level: Low Back Cover: “One is normal: school, home, friends. The other , stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that. And then she did something terrible, and everything changed. But what did she do? Why can't she remember? Polly must uncover the secret, or her true love—and perhaps Polly herself—will be lost.” |
You could call it a modern-day (well, semi-modern. Recent, at least) retelling of the story of Tam Lin, where the woman has to hold onto the man she loves as he gets turned into all sorts of things, or she'll lose him forever. But there's so much changed there that it's more an homage, or even a sequel to that story. And yes, it does turn out to be a love story, which may seem odd at the beginning, since Polly meets her true love when she's ten years old and he's probably at least twice that. A ten year age difference isn't the largest I've ever heard of, but it is unusual, to say the least. Of course, Polly had a crush on Tom from the time they met, and in terms of personality they're perfectly matched, so it does end up working as a romance in spite of the strange beginning.