The Yule Country

by Michael Terlouw

Before dawn on Christmas morning, eight-year-old Brian is unintentionally abducted from his home. He arrives by flying sleigh in a snowy world of toy-making elves, lamp-lit villages seemingly right off the covers of Christmas cards, and talking snowmen. Forced to remain there for a full year, Brian has time to plumb the depths of the elves' culture, to travel about in their strange kingdom of Yule, and ultimately, to encounter that world's angry and vengeful dark side. As he falls ever more deeply into a net of curses, sorcery, and age-old feuds between terrible powers, only sacrifice and death will deliver him back to his own world. The Yule Country is not a seasonal children's book, but an adventure into folklore and magic, a romp through a world whose existence we have always suspected and of which, occasionally, we have stolen fleeting glimpses. For lovers of pure fantasy and fairy tale, this book gives some trite and well-worn cultural images a new lease on life!

345 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 8, 2015

Reviews

[Michael Terlouw · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my book and the four stars represent its average rating by readers on-line. Narcissistic to put it here? You bet! Hoping it leaks out of my list and on to other people. I guarantee its quality if you love fantasy.