Nick’s mother passed away, and his father remarried. He is now
moved out of his room and in with his older brother to make way for his
stepsister Laurie. Nick thinks she is strange, which she is. She has
read all the Spiderwick books and guides, and is convinced there are
faeries. However she has never seen one. She does go looking for them
however, giving Nick the assignment to find a four-leaf clover. This is
one tool to see faeries. Nick finds one, and with it comes upon a
Nixie named Taloa, almost dead in his yard. He risks being grounded as
he carries it to a pond because it needs water. The Nixie gives Laurie and Nick the "sight" (ability to see faeries). The Nixie sends Nick
and Laurie on a mission to find her lost sisters, six of them. While
searching the happen upon a burn pond, with the charred dead bodies of
three nixies. They rest on a hill, and wake a giant, and now have a big
problem. The giant chases them, but then is entranced by the Nixie
singing. It stops being aggressive and looks at the ocean. They
convince the Nixie to keep singing, and get a ride from Nick’s brother,
Jules to a book signing for the Spiderwick authors, who don’t believe
them, but they run into Jared and Simon Grace from the Chronicles who
are at the signing and in the area with their father. They do believe
them. With the Grace kids they visit the old shack of a man who use to
communicate with their great uncle, where they find some of Arthur
Spiderwick’s papers which Jared takes. There is also a how-to paper of
capturing a giant. They trap a giant, and they see it struggling in
such a way that it may die. They and are afraid for it, when the owner
of the shack, Noseeum Jack, makes an appearance and terminates the
giant. End of book one.
I enjoyed getting back to this series. I am not sure if I like using the other books and characters as part of the plot.
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