Eighteen-year-old Amy Tucker and her dad, a detective, go to a small town named Seabrook, intending to only spend one night there. Here’s a synopsis to help explain what I mean. (Don’t get too invested in the lighthouse, it’s effectively a red herring.) Instead of pursuing spookiness, instead of following leads to solve a mystery, the story becomes a fantastical exploration of “spirit” and soul-searching. Not that I wanted the plot to be predictable I mean that it’s set up like a mystery and perhaps a ghost story, but it’s neither of those. That’s not what I was expecting, and I was disappointed with how it turned out. It’s beautifully written, bursting with heart and hope, takes one to the pits of despair and leads one back to thinking everything will be okay. This was a wonderful story about several characters’ journeys through grief and difficult life circumstances. I would like to thank Christopher Parker, Beacon Press, and NetGalley for allowing me to listen to a free audiobook ARC in exchange for an honest review. Lots of heart but misleading and disappointing
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This story was so fun, with crushes on boys and jealousy over other girls getting attention. Hephaestus was such a sweet character, I loved reading about him. I loved how this book told the story of Atalanta's race with the golden apples, one of my favorite myths. But Hephaestus may be the only one who can help her with a special project. She likes Hephaestus but when rumors swirl about them, she starts avoiding her friend. The only boy who still talks to her is Hephaestus, who walks with a limp. Aphrodite decides to give her friend, Athena, a makeover but doesn't really enjoy the result-all of the boys giving Athena attention instead of her. She especially loves the attention from handsome Atlas. It was so much fun while still containing a great message.Īphrodite has all the boys in school wrapped around her finger. The books teach the ancient stories and also teach valuable life lessons to young girls.Īfter reading the first three books in the series, "Aphrodite the Beauty" was possibly my favorite in the series. The modern twist is there, even while being fully contained on Mount Olympus. Each of the characters are lovingly crafted as a young, modern version of the classic figure. I love reading about the Greek myths and the tales in this series are perfectly told for young readers to learn how fun and exciting the myths are. Ghostland is a book that is hard to classify, and all the more beautiful for being so. All this and more can be found in the pages of Edward Parnell’s haunting (and haunted) Ghostland, a narrative that continuously reminds us that it is ‘always the ghosts’ that linger. In such uncertain times then, it is perhaps no wonder that so many of us, dubbed ‘the haunted generation’ by the Fortean Times, remain preoccupied with the ghosts that have shaped us: the stories we’ve loved since childhood, the genius loci of our landscape, or those collective and personal memories that lurk in the edgelands of our minds, too fleeting or too painful to bring into full focus. Ghost stories in part represent ways of making sense and meaning from the past, as well as offering a means of understanding our present. The British landscape, be it geographical, literary, artistic or ideological, has always been riven with ghosts, a folkloric and supernatural fusion of the multiple histories and cultures embedded within the spaces that surround us. Review by Barbara Chamberlin (see bottom of page for bio). Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country (Note, I’ve read the rest of the series after reading the first one. There’s a cliffie at the end but I thought this being the start of the series is pretty solid. Hed really like to do one of those things. Great start to a series, but I wasn’t expecting the sudden cliffhanger. This first book isn’t that long and I really enjoyed reading about the majority of the characters that were introduced here and the development of the MCs blooming feelings towards each other. Sairis has never ridden a living horse, never left home, never kissed a man. Review: The Capital (The Knight and the Necromancer 1) by A.H. It’s just how I would describe my initial reaction to his predicament in the book. Retrouvez lebook The Knight and the Necromancer - Book 1: The Capital - The Knight and the Necromancer, 1 de A. We have Prince Roland, back at the capitol to see his sister ascend to the throne after the untimely death of their father and we have the young and shy necromancer, Sairis confused as hell as to why he was at the kingdom’s capital to begin with. Speaking of characters, I do loved the dual POV that we’ve got here because with so many things happening in the book and questions arising each chapter, we get immediate answers from the characters themselves. I was very much immersed with the world she created for the characters. 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