An Eccen­tric Game, dra­ma­tic romance, by Emi­lia Damon

The more books I read, the more know­ledge I have of mun­da­ne acti­vi­ties. The same has hap­pen­ed with this book. From fri­end­ships blos­so­ming into some­thing more to betra­yals, magi­cal crea­tures, and beau­tiful vil­la­ges in the heart of the jungle. Why don’t we hop right into it?

Our main cha­rac­ter is a girl named Fri­da, who grows up in a tiny vil­la­ge in the moun­ta­ins. She knows this place by heart, and she takes noti­ce of the oddest, most pecu­li­ar things. Such as the three small stones near the well whe­re they stop for water every mor­ning, that remain untouch­ed every day.

Whe­ther some of the vil­la­gers noti­ce the same odd things that Fri­da does, remains a mys­tery. One day, she deci­des to take mat­ters into her own hands and mess with the order of things. She throws the three well stones away, tumbles through the neighbor’s Rose­ber­ry bush, and steps into the mush­room cir­cle near her house. Ever­y­thing she did that day, she did with a pur­po­se, with a goal, a wish.

A wish to find out what else is out the­re in the world.

“Oh, how I wish, I wish, I despera­te­ly wish for some­thing to hap­pen…”

Be careful what you wish for becau­se it might come true. And it did. The last thing she did that day, was a step into the mush­room cir­cle, and when Fri­da did, she got trans­por­ted into a dif­fe­rent realm, the fairy realm. The peti­te girl is taken aback by the chan­ge in her sur­roun­dings. Ever­y­thing see­med magi­cal. The­re were fire­f­lies ever­y­whe­re and tiny litt­le crea­tures skit­te­ring and fly­ing around her, poking and prod­ding her.

Squir­ming, she tried to run away, but she could­n’t as one of the litt­le fai­ries had mana­ged to pull on her hair hard enough to send her fly­ing on her back. With a yelp, she fell. Now, Fri­da knows she can’t run away or go back to her house becau­se she could­n’t see the same mush­room cir­cle that had trans­por­ted her into the magi­cal realm in the first place.

Fri­da stood her ground and tried to talk to the fai­ries. Rea­li­zing she could not under­stand a word they had spo­ken. She attempt­ed to ges­tu­re at them and tell her sto­ry through that. Gree­ted after a while by an elder fairy who could under­stand and speak to her, they let her know that she can’t go back to her home until she swo­re she would never divul­ge the secrets of this place.

But Fri­da did not want to lea­ve.

Now I won’t bore you or spoil too much of the sto­ry, as you should read it yours­elf, this is, of cour­se, just the begin­ning of the litt­le girl’s adven­tures. The sto­ry spans from her child­hood in the fairy realm to her adult­hood when she takes on a rather dan­ge­rous role in the mythi­cal realm and goes back to the land of humans. She meets a lad who she falls in love with but can not tell the truths hid­den behind years of magic.

It gets bet­ter and a lot more inte­res­t­ing at that point, not­hing seems as it seems. The world turns upsi­de down, and she ends up get­ting some help from an unex­pec­ted place. Does she get a good ending? That’s for you to find out— all I can say on the mat­ter that it was defi­ni­te­ly worth the read.