Forget Me Not: A YA Dark Academia Boarding School Thriller of Nordic Mythology, Forbidden Romance, Magic, Revenge, and Four Girls' Fates Entwined

by Gry Kappel Jensen, Jennifer Alexander (Translator)

Overview

Chamomile, Kirstine, Victoria and Malou are back at Rosenholm Academy to start a new school year. But in addition to the lessons in runic magic, clairvoyance and Norse mythology, the girls also have something completely different to worry about. A crime from the past draws threads to the present, and the girls have committed themselves to solving the murder mystery that casts a shadow over Rosenholm.

An ominous prediction causes the seriousness to dawn on them, while the questions loom large. And each of them harbors deep secrets that threaten to tear them apart before they can fulfill the promise they made. Time is running out and it could end up being fatal...

Forget me not is the exciting sequel to the fantasy novel Roses and Violets and volume 2 in the Rosenholm trilogy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646900138
Publisher:	Arctis
Publication date:	09/17/2024
Series:	The Rosenholm Trilogy
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.60(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Gry Kappel Jensen is the author of bestselling fantasy YA, weaving stories full of suspense, romance and mysticism. She has a Masters in History and Nordic Languages & Literature. She works as an editor, translator, and author, and has written a number of books for children and YA, including the popular Rosenholm trilogy. She lives in Århus, Denmark, with her husband and children.

Jen Alexander is a former primary school teacher and current translator and interpreter from Scotland. She studied Scandinavian languages at the University of Edinburgh. She works from Portuguese and Danish, and particularly enjoys translating creative and literary texts. She’s a Chartered Institute of Linguists–certified translator of Portuguese and Danish into English and a Diploma in Public Service Interpreting–qualified interpreter. Jen has collaborated on English translation and editorial projects for Vernáculo, served as a Portuguese–English interpreter with the Fife Community Interpreting Service, and her literary translations include Caio Fernando Abreu’s Garopaba Mon Amour (Manoa Journal, 2018) and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s “The Silence” (Dedalus, 2018). She lives near Edinburgh with her two children and slightly eccentric dog.

Editorial Reviews

2024-06-15
The second book in the Rosenholm Trilogy, which is translated from Danish, reunites readers with magical boarding school students Malou, Chamomile, Kirstine, and Victoria as they try to discover a murderer's identity.

The girls’ second year at Rosenholm Academy has begun, and the friends are back together in their dorm. They’re determined to find out who killed Trine, the former Rosenholm student who vanished in 1989; her ghost manifested to Victoria inRoses & Violets (2023). After Trine writes “SAY SORRY” on Victoria’s fogged-up bathroom mirror, the girls work to decipher this cryptic message, leading them to Trine’s childhood home and her previously unknown sister, an odd, possibly dangerous recluse. Kappel Jensen weaves imaginative descriptions of the magical lessons (the girls’ studies include intriguing Norse and Celtic mythology) into a good old-fashioned whodunit, and the story adroitly deepens each girl’s character while forging new connections among the cast members. Romantic and sexual desires are integrated within the plot, both in present-day attractions and through ancient fertility rites that honor the seasons from a perspective of female empowerment. The abundant conflict at times gets messily, graphically, and time-consumingly violent, an indulgence that threatens to lacerate the intricate, well-developed plot. Some stones left unturned at the very end neatly set up the intrigue for the third book. Central characters are cued white.

This intriguing and intricate story is a winner.(Fantasy. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews