If you're looking for a vampire story with lots of gore and action, turn away now. Similarly, if you're looking for an Anne Rice-esque character studyIf you're looking for a vampire story with lots of gore and action, turn away now. Similarly, if you're looking for an Anne Rice-esque character study/ thought experiment with lush descriptions and gorgeous prose, this is not the book you're looking for. I don't think this can even be considered horror. While it's central character is a young vampire, the whole point seems to be a metaphor for both otherness, being lost in a search for identity and perhaps the relationship between women and food. There were certainly parts of this which read very like what I've read about women who suffer from an ED. However, it wasn't just an extended metaphor about being judged for eating or not eating. The very process of feeding and nourishing oneself is a method of connecting - with other people, with your cultural heritage, with your own body and life.
This definitely falls into the trope of sad girl fiction but seems to do it well. The prose is sparse but engaging. The dialogue is believable but so broken and incomplete in places that it's infuriating. Overall, I liked this though I'm unlikely to ever reread it. I liked it as a commentary on belonging and isolation. While the ending did work, it felt a little too abrupt to me but I imagine that's personal taste. Definitely one to try if you want a short, compelling read that's a bit different. ...more
Audio review: Great narrator who brought plenty of energy to the performance and somehow managed to layer the MC's deliAudio ARC provided by NetGalley
Audio review: Great narrator who brought plenty of energy to the performance and somehow managed to layer the MC's deliberate lack of awareness with her genuine lack of awareness.
I'm still not entirely sure what I make of this one. The MC is on the autistic spectrum and exhibits certain traits such as taking people very literally, saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, lacking certain emotional understanding and hyper fixating on special interests. Her voice is pitch perfect (as far as I can tell) and we're set up to believe that she is an inadequate narrator (ie one who is unable to give the full picture rather than an unreliable narrator who has an agenda and deliberately conceals facts.) However, as the story progresses, Wendy makes more and more questionable choices. I have friends who are like Wendy and what we've all found and agreed together, is that if they misunderstand something, they appreciate it if someone just explains what they missed. And we all agree not to be offended by each other's absolute honesty because you need that to fully communicate. But it felt like Wendy would have bull headedly gone ahead with some of the things she does even if someone had explained it to her. For example if someone had bluntly but kindly told her that Diane did not consider her a friend and was starting to find her a nuisance, and that the relationship you form with someone in your own head based on their tweets is fantasy compared to the relationship you may or may not have with them in real life. Wendy is impossible to shake from an objective once she gets set on it. And then bring in Ginger, 15 yr old girl who really should be removed from her current home by social services due to physical, sexual and psychological abuse. And some part of Wendy knows it but she ignores this in favour of the narrative that Ginger is her best friend.
This is beautifully written. It's compelling. Wendy is by turns likeable and unlikeable. And I'm not someone who subscribes to the idea that all 'representation must be positive representation'. A neurodivergent person can still be a villain, or flawed or selfish etc. But this ended with the uncomfortable parallel between people cutting Wendy slack for her behaviour because she was ND and the fact that her ND led her into criminal behaviour and causing a lot of harm. So was the author saying that ND people like Wendy are unreliable and likely to do things like this if not checked? I hope not. Or maybe she was saying that Wendy hid behind her ND and was actually a thoroughly self centred person who refused to consider that other people were as real as her? I don't know. Maybe the story was just the story and meant to make you feel uncomfortable, even though it ends on a note of dark humour. If so it succeeded. Overall this was not a comfortable book. I just couldn't see to what purpose that was so. ...more
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Audio review first: Really enjoyed the chosen narrator's performance. Bea Holland wasAudio ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Audio review first: Really enjoyed the chosen narrator's performance. Bea Holland was engaging and brought nuance and high characterisation to the narrative.
Main Review: Initially, I found the style a little off putting. Yes it was clear and the prose was plain and perfect, rather than heavy or flowery. However, it read a little like it was intended for the very young end of the YA market and tbh I have not been enjoying YA fantasy of late. Three chapters in, this didn't matter. I was fully invested in the twists and turns of the story and the careful world building. I will say that sense of who the book was aimed for versus who it actually served didn't ever entirely go away, and was occasionally jarring. But compared to what the book delivered, it was a minor consideration.
Threadneedle is set in our world. This is London as we know it now. The one difference is that there are witches, this is real magic. Most people no longer believe in such things and witches do not advertise their presence to the cowans (non magical folk), but there are groves across the UK who practice magic. Our introduction into this magical world is not a pleasant one. Anna has always known she was different. Wrong in fact. Her parents are dead under tragic circumstances and she lives with her strict, authoritarian aunt who teaches her that magic and love are sins that will destroy you. Her intention is to raise Anna to become a binder - a witch whose magic is bound so that she cannot use it. There's a lot of the fundamentalist religious zealot in Aunt and not a little Mother Gothel vibes.
As events unfold, Anna finds herself drawn to Effie, a girl her own age who is also a witch but has experienced magic in a far more free and enjoyable way than Anna. When Effie starts to attend Anna's school, Anna begins to rebel against Aunt for the first time in her life. That's really all the plot you need going in. If you're a regular fantasy reader, there won't be much here that you haven't seen before but you're unlikely to have seen it in quite this way. Shades of the Craft (the original not the recent bloodless travesty), of Grimm fairytales and even dabs of contemporary YA and a hint of the kind of magic you find in midgrade fiction are all mixed here. At times dark, Threadneedle is a book about power and who can be trusted with it. Does power corrupt or does it merely attract the venal?
This feeds into the female friendship aspect. The friendships here are great but they're never flawless, which is to be expected from 16 yr old protagonists - or anyone for that matter! There are a group of 'mean girls' who get their comeuppance, but even that is a look at power. I imagine some people will read shallowly and cry 'girl on girl' hate - and yes there is some but can we please stop pretending it doesn't exist and need addressing in real life? Being a teenager is about experimenting with power and that includes power in your interpersonal life. It also interrogates ideas about familial abuse, bullying, ostracism and neglect. And it explores these ideas well.
The heart of Threadneedle is a magical adventure story about learning to claim your own power and use it well. It's intelligent, engaging and addictive. Highly recommend. ...more
I really, really liked this novella. The prose was gorgeous, the story was immersive, the imagery was brutal, beaARC provided by Tor.com via NetGalley
I really, really liked this novella. The prose was gorgeous, the story was immersive, the imagery was brutal, beautiful and compelling. Considering that only 174 pages are devoted to the complicated themes tangled together in this short gem, it's astounding how much the author has crammed in without it ever feeling muddled or crowded.
The story follows Ella, who, as a little girl, discovers she has paranormal abilities. These take the form of a type of clairvoyance but ripen to terrifying displays of telekinesis, teleportation, pyrokenesis etc during the course of the story. Kev is Ella's little brother, born during the riots in 1992 which followed the acquittal of Rodney King's murderers. The American system - both legal and social - fails both children and their mother (and many many other poc) leading to a tale which twists back on itself, tracking over oppressed past and dystopian future. I don't want to include spoilers but this dual pov, non linear, time skip novella was nevertheless still easy to follow. It felt like being handed pieces of a jigsaw and asked if you dared to put them together. Because this book is about rage born of injustice. It's about racism, both generational and current, and potentially future.
Understandably, it reflects the American experience of black men and women, drawing on American history. (So while certain aspects will no doubt resonate, this is not representative of racism as a whole on a global scale.) It deals also with poverty - again from a uniquely American perspective. I have to admit, as a UK person (and the UK does have issues with poverty and crime, we are far from perfect) the sort of decisions that (for example) lead a stabbed man to walk to hospital instead of calling an ambulance are bewildering. I was horrified by the US healthcare system all over again, and tbh that's an issue I trip over at least once a week. Similarly, US gun laws do not make any kind or sane or logical sense to your cousins across the pond. This is not a case of 'we're better than you' btw - this is a genuine expression of utter bafflement because while we do have some gun crime, it's nothing compared to the US and we have no frame of reference for it.
However, despite lack of experiences that gel in certain areas, it's easy to see how these things pile up and pile up, exacerbating each other and causing the very system that fails the MCs. It's a grim picture and it's a tribute to the skill of the author that he has created a narrative so compelling that you just can't put the book down, even when faced with the scale of the problem. I really enjoyed the sci-fi element; I was rooting for both siblings; and I took a certain amount of enjoyment in the rage as well as finding something transformative and hopeful in it too. I would say the author accomplished what he intended here in terms of making the reader feel.
The last 10% of the novella didn't really work for me. Possibly more space would have helped. It felt to me that having followed a logical narrative arc for both Ella and Kev, that Kev got short changed at the end there. That said, this was a brilliant novella and I highly recommend it....more
I have no idea why this has been compared to The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet or The 100. For reference, it's nothing like either so if that's whaI have no idea why this has been compared to The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet or The 100. For reference, it's nothing like either so if that's what grabs your attention when reading the blurb, you will probably be disappointed. Honestly, this was far more like Andy Weir's The Martian but without the wry, fatalistic humour. The author has a lyrical, literary style which perfectly fits the uncaring emptiness of space and the complicated forms of emptiness inside the crew. This is not YA. Honestly, who described it as YA? The protagonists are 13 - 20 through the book but that really doesn't make it YA. Marketing really screwed the pooch on this book - it's literary sci-fi.
The premise is that a habitable planet - Terra-two - has been discovered within reach of our solar system. We're looking at a space faring society not far removed from ours - imagine we tried a bit harder with the space race instead of applying the breaks. (All the problems encountered by astronauts today, are those encountered by the characters in this novel.) With the Earth becoming increasingly crowded, many countries accelerated their space programs in an effort to be the first to land a colonising party on Terra-two, despite it being agreed that the planet belonged to all mankind. In the UK, Dalton academy sent out a request for the brightest twelve and thirteen year olds to attend and spend the next six years training as astronauts. The journey to Terra-two will take 22 yrs - hence the need to start young. From there the pov shifts between the young protagonists chosen for the beta program. The intention is that they are the advance party to set up shelters and food production ahead of colonists and women intended to become mothers. The book is a character exploration. This is not action packed space opera or sci-fi adventure. This is about a system that is willing to effectively send children in to something as uncertain and traumatic as war. It's about the sacrifice inherent in exploration and making history. And most of all it's about how even the best of the best are only human with all the flaws, hang ups and traumas that entails.
Slight spoiler, but don't expect this journey to have a conclusive end either. The journey is the point!
Personally I really enjoyed this. It was brilliantly characterised, intelligently written and utterly enthralling. I have no desire to go to space, which seems to be a phase most people go through as children, but this made that desire accessible to me. The science and interpersonal reactions were on point too. Do not expect something in the tradition of a grand Romance - this is bleak and beautiful. And honestly, it incorporated everything I wanted from similarly themed (actually YA) books with it's stronger character detail, world building and scientific understanding....more
Utter brilliance. Witty and meta with the overall message that choosing yourself, no matter how messed up you think you are, is an act of heroism in iUtter brilliance. Witty and meta with the overall message that choosing yourself, no matter how messed up you think you are, is an act of heroism in itself. You don't have to be teen protagonist TM with all the traits of the exceptional, you yourself as you are - however flawed - are enough.
I really liked this book. It pokes fun at the 'chosen one' trope and while it doesn't pull punches - highlighting some of the more ridiculous teen fiction staples - it's also done with love. There's snark but no spite. Meanwhile, MC Mikey is dealing with some very teen problems - graduating, getting ready for college, a long unrequited crush and life in general changing and being outside his control. And that's before you factor in his anxiety and OCD, his sistr's anorexia, his father's non abusive alcoholism and his ambitious, neglectful mother who doesn't seem to have noticed her family is crashing and burning around her. And then there's the weird shit that's going on. It goes on everywhere of course but no one ralks about it and the adults seem to forget. Only a select group of kids get involved - and Mikey and his friends are NOT that group.
I especially loved the sibling dynamics - really Mike, Meredith and Melinda were just adorable together but still believable. The friendships which are a huge focus are excellent too. Jared is just brilliant. And this book proves one of my long held YA bugbears correct - a rich and deep friendship is as good as any first love story.
It didn't rock my eorld but it was a good book and kept me entertained. Pretty much the ultimate 'what if' over what happens when obsession over an auIt didn't rock my eorld but it was a good book and kept me entertained. Pretty much the ultimate 'what if' over what happens when obsession over an author and his work means a person can not allow that author to write as he needs to? In some respects shades of Misery reared their heads but it was a very different story. I have an appreciation for both sides of the equation having both been desperate for an author release a new book and not take ig in a direction I don't agree with, and being the author who knows she's going to piss people off by following where the narrative needs to go. Luckily never to this extreme in either case! Anyway great to see Hodges and Gibney on the case, Jerome too even if he's a bit annoying. This is all about the question of who art belongs to - it's not the creator and it's not any single individual. Added into which is family dynamics, greed, murdervand good old obsession. Looking forward to the final installment....more
This is my favourite of the Wayward Children series so far. For each of this remarkably multi-layered books, McGuire has taken a central theme and buiThis is my favourite of the Wayward Children series so far. For each of this remarkably multi-layered books, McGuire has taken a central theme and built a kind of fairytale around it. These books are not direct retellings but they read very like fairytales in that they contain kernels of truth to passed on to the reader in much the same as the original fairytales were passed on from mother to daughter and Grandmother to grandaughter, well before the likes of Charles Perault, Hans Christian Anderson or the Brothers Grimm got their hands on them.
In this instance the theme is debt and fairness. We follow Lundy as she makes her way into the Goblin Market and discovers these lessons for herself. The most unbreakable rule of this world is that you must always give fair value - the market will ensure you cannot cheat. Lundy is eight when she first finds the door and learns the rules. She spends the next few years moving between worlds, trying to decide where she belongs and what she owes. I don't want to include spoilers so suffice to say that this is an intelligent meditation on what exactly debt is; how prisons are created out of it; what the drawbacks are when one person picks up the tab for another; and why all debt cannot be equal due to personal circumstances and abilities.It's beautifully and hauntingly written with a very bitter sweet ending. Highly recommend....more
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In ‘Home’ Amanda Berriman manages to combine several things I have only the most tenuous tARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
In ‘Home’ Amanda Berriman manages to combine several things I have only the most tenuous tolerance for in literature and do it in such a way as to make me absolutely love the result. I generally dislike present tense narrative but I was halfway through the book before I even noticed it was in present tense – always a sign that the author is in full control and you as a reader are safe in her hands. I'm also not very fond of inadequate narrators. I don’t mean unreliable narrators - I love an unreliable narrator. Inadequate and Unreliable narrators are both tricky to pull off realistically, although in my opinion managing the former requires feats of creative skill rarely possessed by those who attempt it. Both conceal things from the reader but an unreliable narrator intends to do this since they have an agenda of their own or a mindset that will not allow them to communicate the story more accurately. An inadequate narrator communicates faithfully but at the level at which they themselves understand the events - think Room by Emma Donahugh or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon. In fact while I acknowledge that those two examples are excellent books, where inadequate narration is done well even, I hated both of them intensely. Not so with ‘Home’ which is narrated by four year old Jesika. It takes a bit of an adjustment to get used to four year old speak but it is so authentic and emotionally honest you get drawn in before you even realise it. I honestly haven’t enjoyed an inadequate narrator so much since I reread ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. I loved ‘Home’ and I fell in love with Jesika.
Like the aforementioned books, ‘Home’ uses a child’s point of view to explore some very difficult issues. It’s a mark of Berriman’s skill that we are kept close enough to care deeply about the events as they unfold but we are in many respects protected by Jesika’s lack of full understanding. I think this is the mark of a truly great inadequate narrator. An adult narrator is unlikely to have as much power to make us consider the issues presented, and challenge our preconceptions, as a bright and engaging four year old, whose imperfect understanding and unoccluded vision take complex problems and make them simple enough for us to really focus on. We lose so much of the simplicity and sense of justice innate in children as we grow up – and we should in many ways because we have to function as adults – but the privilege of seeing the world through Jesika’s eyes makes you ask yourself whether you haven’t really lost something you should have tried to hold on to. Couldn’t we add things as we become adults rather than just subsume our child selves? But I digress. One of the strongest points in the novels favour was the pitch perfect portrayal of what it’s like to be a four year old. Home will make you feel things, people. I don’t necessarily even mean bad things - although let’s face it, much of Jesika’s reality is a grim one. Reading the book, I found myself remembering things I thought and felt at that age that I hadn’t thought of for years; remembering, in short, what it was like to be utterly reliant on someone else and the terror at the thought of that person going away; remembering the comparative powerlessness of being a child and the inherent sense of injustice that often went with it; remembering how it was to really be in the now almost all the time, because time was way too long and now was full of good things, and how simple things could be the most important things of all. I especially remembered checking the emotional weather forecast in adult faces and acting accordingly as Jesika does, how people shouting could seem to make the world shake. I think we forget these things as we grow up and they become trivial or inconsequential but from a four year old’s POV they are incredibly important. Berriman’s ability to put herself in Jesika’s shoes to tell us this story is breath taking.
Another strong point for me was how the story unfolded. There are many ways to tell a tale but there seem to be two main ways of getting your readers to turn the pages – the trick and the art. The ‘trick’ involves forcing your reader to continually ask questions. What happened then? Who killed the victim? etc etc. Most thrillers and crime novels employ this to great effect. The ‘Art’ is when an author leads you using the character as a lure. Instead of asking questions, the reader experiences what the character does as the author forces the character to react to sudden changes of situation. John le Carre uses this method. So does Jane Austen. And so too, does Amanda Berriman in Home, to great effect. It is utterly seamless and makes the book, which in many ways should be a challenging read, completely effortless. An experience, not merely entertainment. Twice I found myself reading an hour longer than I intended! ‘Home’ is unputdownable.
This was one of my most anticipated reads of 2018 and it didn’t disappoint. I think we can expect great things to come from the author. Can’t recommend the book ‘Home’ highly enough....more
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This is the first book by Dunmore I've ever read and it is fabulous. It has the same claustCopy provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
This is the first book by Dunmore I've ever read and it is fabulous. It has the same claustrophobic, flat and disenchanted feel as Du Maurier's Rebecca - which perhaps sounds like I'm not really trying to sell the experience of this book but I absolutely am. That precise set up is very difficult to achieve but Dunmore does it with a few deft and apparently effortless touches. It is set in Bristol after the French Revolution - I've not read many books that deal with the aftermath of the revolution in other European countries so this was an eye opener. I don't think I ever considered the effects our close neighbour's revolution had o the UK.
Lizzie is a free spirited, intelligent and innocent girl who grew up in a radical family. Her conservative husband who is utterly loathsome, has a real fear and desire for her, believing that she must be controlled in all ways. This is almost classic 'she would be perfect if I could just change her' type mentality and it is sinister watching it take effect in this story. All the threads are drawn together steadily as the book progresses trapping the reader as effectively as the characters are also trapped in their unhealthy relationship. This is compulsive and thought provoking leading to a very satisfying conclusion. Highly recommend....more
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This is a wonderful book set in the early twentieth century with two unusual protagonists. IARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
This is a wonderful book set in the early twentieth century with two unusual protagonists. I am an absolute sucker for books where the focus is on the relationship between sisters and Winters manages that beautifully here. In fact all the character relationships whether sweet, realistic or down right creepy are well depicted. There's plenty of time appropriate detail and the story is amazingly atmospheric. Odd and Tru are brilliant characters. If you are a bit fed up with cookie cutter YA romance try this. There's no love interest and it's all about the bond between sisters. A dark and atmospheric delight....more
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This was a solid, enjoyable YA read for the lower end of the spectrum. I found myself drawnCopy provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
This was a solid, enjoyable YA read for the lower end of the spectrum. I found myself drawn in despite not really liking Piper as a character - or the way she excludes the reader from a lot of her inner narrative. Gris was an okay foil for her and the mystery was nicely paced. I haven't seen Gargoyles used as supernatural beasties in this way before so that made a nice change (although because I own to a certain amount of pedantry when it comes to words I winced when he called himself a gargoyle. Gargoyles are the stone carvings on buildings through which water from the gutters falls to the ground, often through carved mouths. If the author was talking about the large bewinged carved stone creatures that guard/ decorate old roof tops then she meant 'grotesques'. I know, I know this is my problem but saying Gris was a gargoyle just kept reminding me that we get the word 'gargle' from the same root word.) Anyway I can see this being a big hit with a lot of YA. Personally it was just ok for me. Mostly this is because I didn't warm to the author's style. But also since this book contained OCD and DSH (deliberate self-harm) I kinda wanted it to be grittier and it just wasn't. I felt divorced from the emotional side of those actions. Not a bad book but not for me....more
I was given this as a birthday present (approximately 4hrs ago at the time of writing this) and I read it in one sitting. This is a record for me withI was given this as a birthday present (approximately 4hrs ago at the time of writing this) and I read it in one sitting. This is a record for me with graphic novels because I find them difficult to read and often put them down for days at a time. (Yes I know that's the weird way round and most people work better with images included.) Pantheon is utterly stupendous, uproariously funny and slyer than Set in it's delivery. The style of the art work perfectly fits the storytelling which is always well balanced between the gruesomeness of Egyptian myth and the sheer silliness and humour of the same. It's easy to see that Ancient Egyptian mythology was meant to be funny and that's definitely delivered on here. I would recommend this to anyone who has even the slightest shadow of an inkling towards graphic novels or mythology. Pantheon is not to be missed....more
This was such an odd book. Not so much in subject but in execution. Now I get that we're supposed to think that Scarlett has some form of synesthesia This was such an odd book. Not so much in subject but in execution. Now I get that we're supposed to think that Scarlett has some form of synesthesia but the constant, over laboured descriptions of emotions and events as colours was really wearing. I actually have a couple of the less interesting forms of synesthesia myself so when someone tells me a word tastes of cardboard spheres I actually do know what they mean. However even with that in mind, this felt over done. I like lyrical prose and magical realism but not when it's over-egged to the point of getting in the way of the story. Who's king, fellow authors? That's right, Story is King. Long live the king!
The idea was quite interesting and the sheer horror of the abusiveness of the father felt real enough. Extra horrifying in fact because he punished his daughters by holding them and their love for each other hostage to his whims and plans. I quite liked the magic-carnival type setting too. It had a 'goblin market' feel that's always intrigued me. I also liked Scarlett and her sister Donnatella as characters. It's great to see sisterly relationships explored in fantasy fiction. (Of course I would say that given what I write but still.) So this book definitely had its plus points.
As a whole though the hype just did not live up to the reality for me. Three stars because it was a pretty good book and I did enjoy most of it but I probably won't go out of my way to read the second one....more
I was in the mood for some poetry and I remembered seeing a rec for this book on another book of poetry. (I had not liked that book and the author of I was in the mood for some poetry and I remembered seeing a rec for this book on another book of poetry. (I had not liked that book and the author of the review had said that they felt this was a better bet.) So I picked it up and read it in a single sitting. I love the way the author has used fairytale imagery to tell difficult truths. I agree, there’s a strength in the shared experience of the fairytale that allows us to confront some of the hardest aspects of life without being swallowed by them. I also found the poems relatively engaging, despite the fact that my teen years are well and truly behind me. This is definitely a far superior form of the sort of poetry currently aimed at YA girls – it doesn’t consist of hitting the return key after every other word for a start! I suspect the reason I didn’t love this was because a) I am no longer a YA and b) as a teen, my experiences did encompass some of these issues but were also much broader. It felt as if there was a lot of repetition which didn’t necessarily attack issues such as anorexia and valuing your own body from different angles. I would have liked more variety and poems of hope as well as poems full of anger and dark humour. However that’s personal preference and I still really liked this collection.
I have to give this 5* because it is a classic with an important message about nature versus nurture. I still don't know if I actually like the book -I have to give this 5* because it is a classic with an important message about nature versus nurture. I still don't know if I actually like the book - although I think the point may not be to like it so much as to understand it. Also bear in mind that this was a reread. I originally read this book as a comparative study with Lord of the Flies (war is the human condition) for my dissertation ... so quite some time ago.
Despite being a thoroughly unlikeable character, Pinkie is strangely sympathetic. The events of the book feel both inevitable and organic developments based on character choices - no accident since the question is : are you a product of your up bringing or are you Brighton Rock - the same faults and failings and basic character make up no matter how many layers you peel back?
I enjoyed revisting this again with more life experience. (Though I did find I drew pretty much the same conclusions as I had before.) Definitely worth a read but don't expect a happy ending....more
An Unveiled short story that sits between book two and book three.
This was born out of the research I did on mythical Black Dogs for 'I am the SilencAn Unveiled short story that sits between book two and book three.
This was born out of the research I did on mythical Black Dogs for 'I am the Silence' where I stumbled on this long standing and allegedly true story. Well there's just no way that Em would leave this uninvestigated so I give you Emlynn meeting the Black Dog of Lyme.
(Just a wee warning - since this is a ghost story, someone will have had to die. If you're very easily upset by stories about animals then I advise you to skip this - and maybe comfort yourself like I do that the Black Dog probably hounded the men involved for the rest of their natural lives... You won't miss anything major if you do skip it but if you want to give it a go there's some tantalising hints for book 3 in her. Enjoy and happy reading!)
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